Point of View

The novel is narrated in third-person past by a narrator who focuses on Willa, the main character and the only character whose head we are able to look inside. Because the novel is filtered through Willa’s perspective, the reader is treated to a look at the world through the eyes of a Faeran, which is quite different from the perspective of a human. From the moment the story begins, it is clear that Willa sees the world in a unique way: “She gazed toward the lair of the homesteaders. They had built it with the cut-up carcasses of murdered trees nailed one to the other in long slabs. The bodies of the dead trees made flat walls with square corners, unlike anything else in the forest” (3). Here, we see Willa examining the standard human houses as something morbid and grotesque. Because she sees trees...