Every Thursday we go tough travelling through the tropes of fantasy with Nathan at the Fantasy Review Barn

This week’s topic is HOLIDAYS (and yes, I struggled with this one)

Never too late to celebrate … holidays! Because fantasy festivals and feasts are always fun.  Thanks to Wendy for the suggestion!  And feel free to blame her if this proves to be as hard as it sounds.

The Lies of Locke Lamora – at the end of the story there is a celebration or feast which involves all the major nobility assembling in one tower, cannot remember and name and as I’ve tidied my bookshelves up I can’t find the book!  Result!!

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – don’t know if this counts as a holiday but once a year the living and the dead come together in the cemetery and dance together – the Danse Macabre (I think this is on the eve of Halloween?)

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith – in which Cassandra each year performs a ceremony (rites) on Midsummers Eve – involving a fire, herbs and a picnic – again, very loose but….

Sorry folks – I was less than useless at this one – I really tried but clearly the festive season has turned my brain into mush (and that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!)