10/12/2025
"Rowena Spring’s A Song to Drown the World is a novel of startling contrasts:
- Vast elemental forces are seen through a lens of very human experience with an ingenious view of the minutia of day-to-day survival.
- A protagonist who is perhaps one of the more annoying characters found in Canadian fantasy, yet who is someone the reader can’t help but feel a tremendous sympathy for.
- And an ending that is both unexpected and most satisfying.
You can’t help but hope that Spring will return us to this world (drowned or otherwise) in the near future."
-- Hugh Spencer, author