This novel was amazing. The only thing that threw me off was that the two main characters seem to be asexual through most of the novel, and then they marry at the end, maybe the foreshadowing wasn't apparent enough for me. I actually enjoyed the lack of romance in it, and the apparent asexual charac...
2013 mar 5-7, 2nd reread, 4 stars: I suddenly felt like re-reading this one, even though I remembered that I found the 2nd half dragging upon my first re-read. I always think this book is better than it actually is, and every time I get to the last 2/3, I always feel like rushing through it because ...
Did enjoy the story with this one. It reminded me of the tales of the Lithuanian pagan Earth goddess my grandparents and mother told me when I was young. Really liked the idea of the Master and Chalice in touch with the earthlines, sensing the pain and worry of the land, and trying to alleviate its ...
The first thing you’ll notice about Ms. Mckinley’s work is the grace with which her stories traverse the pages of her novels until they reach their conclusion. Chalice was no exception. It is a coming of age story. Of not just self-discovery but a realization of the world and the limits it imposes o...
Like a good many woman my age who read fantasy, I remember my first encounter with Robin McKinley. It was The Hero and the Crown. I read that book in two, and somehow it feels wrong to buy another copy. It deserves to be so well read it is held together with a rubber band. It is not surprsing, t...
While I found the world-building a bit weak, and the dialogue stilted, I still enjoyed this tale very much. I loved the parts about the bees, which put me pleasantly in mind of the Melissa passages in The Fifth Sacred Thing. The book ended in such a way as to invite a sequel, and if one happens, I'l...
Mirasol is the new Chalice of Willowlands, a member of the Circle, the group that protects the land and the people. Willowlands is an area in unheaval and trouble, ever since the former Master and Chalice died nine months ago. The former Master's only heir, his younger brother, is a Priest of Fire, ...
Predictable plot, bland characters, and a world left so unexplained that it comes across less as mysterious than as a Hollywood set--canvas stretched over wood with nothing behind it. Some of the writing was pretty, particularly the parts involving bees.
This is a six, six and a half for me. The quality is solid, but it doesn't blow me away. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it didn't blow me away. McKinley's work is often fairytalesque, even when it's not explicitly playing with a fairy tale, and I think it worked well for this story, even as I found it...
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