March 2023: I listened to this on audiobook over winter break and got about 2/3 of the way through. I liked a lot of it, but it was hard to make my logical brain shut down and just enjoy the story without asking questions about the worldbuilding (what size are the horses? the humans? where are they going shopping? etc.). This seems to be a common problem with me and fairy stories lately. I hope that when I am fifty, I will be able to enjoy them like a child again.

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Original review: A lovely book. Weird, and delightfully so. I love it for the same reason that I love Winnie-the-Pooh and The Secret Garden: it reminds me that I ought to be a child at heart, and that I love green, growing things, and the outdoors, and pure simple hobbity joys and gentle streams and the echoing call of fairy horns.