![]() ![]() ![]() The specters of both Albertine and death hang over She Who Waits like a fog. Because Polansky has finally gotten to the heart of the matter: the titular “She Who Waits.” And now she has a name.īut is that name Albertine or death? By the end of the book, Polansky provides the answer. And in She Who Waits, those words take on a weight that was far less pronounced in the first two installments. Masterfully dovetailing past and present through exquisite use of flashbacks and the first-person narrative, Polansky once again lets the Warden tell his tale using his own colorful vernacular. Themes of love, death and family provide the foundation for a novel that, unlike the first two books in the series, answers far more questions than it asks, and in doing so completes the portrait of a man called The Warden. Equal parts heart and heartbreak, She Who Waits transcends the series’ fantasy-noir roots and elevates the story into literary tragedy territory. ![]() She Who Waits is the third (and final?) installment of Polansky’s Low Town series and is, no doubt, the best of the lot. If you search for “define warden” on Google, you’ll get the following: a person responsible for the supervision of a particular place or thing or for ensuring that regulations associated with it are obeyed. Editor’s Note: This review contains minor spoilers for the entire Low Town trilogy. ![]()
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