Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
“But oh, Sylvie, what makes the sky such a darling blue?” Last night I finished Sylvie and Bruno 's sequel, which I had long been meaning to read (since two years ago!). The two parts together make a truly lovely book, one I can easily call a favorite. While the Alice books feel more linear in plot, as well as claustrophobic (and thereby cosy), Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893) continues the story's broad setting - a combination of the real world and the two mythical siblings' world. It is both fun and surprising the way the plot jumps back and forth, and sometimes combines, the characters in the real world and those in Sylvie and Bruno's world. On the one hand, you have young Dr. Forester, whose broken heart regains hope when he learns his relationship with Lady Muriel is not altogether over. At the same time, there are Sylvie and Bruno who must hold onto the love, symbolized by a locket, their father entrusted to them, and do what they can to help the people aro