Steve Donoghue's Reviews > The Longest Autumn

Avery's novel imagines a fantasy world in which human guides step through a mystical mirror to the realm of the gods and escort back to the world each of the successive calendar seasons. Tirne, the young escort of the beautiful god Autumn, has no sooner brought him through to the human realm he'll rule for the next few months than the portal between worlds shatters behind them, stranding Autumn and subjecting the world to the "longest autumn" of the book's title. Avery does a very assured job of rendering her story and adds a terrific twist: the longer Autumn stays in the mortal world, the more human he becomes - and the more he's attracted to Tirne. My full review is here: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/t...