![]() ![]() ![]() What we have now is a community that includes elders. Juniper lives in Newford and has Jilly Coppercorn in her life – this is going to be a much bigger issue for anyone who has read de Lint’s work already. It would be like people from Sunnydale turning up at Sarah Michelle Gellar’s house wanting help fighting actual vampires. That’s a lot for a person to get to grips with, even more so because her TV character solves crimes. Characters from it show up in her life thinking that she is her character – plenty of obvious real world issues here, too. Juniper Wiles is a character in a show that people have invested so much in that it has a reality of its own. ![]() If enough people invest in a story, then that story can develop a life of its own – which is of course in some ways a literal truth when you think about fan fiction, cosplay and so forth. Fans of Charles de Lint will be familiar with his multiverses and otherworlds, and the ways in which he envisages different kinds of realities interacting. The premise is that anything sufficiently invested in becomes real. It’s a charming book with a really interesting premise that carries on into the series. I’m not sure why I didn’t review it at the time, but there we are. I’m reasonably sure it stands alone, but I did read the first one first – called Juniper Wiles. Charles de Lint has a new book out, and it’s the second one in his Juniper Wiles series. ![]()
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