In The Forests of Serre
In the tales of World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia McKillip, nothing is ever as it seems. A mirror is never just a mirror; a forest is never just a forest. Here, it is a place where a witch can hide in her house of bones and a prince can bargain with his heart...where good and evil...
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In the tales of World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia McKillip, nothing is ever as it seems. A mirror is never just a mirror; a forest is never just a forest. Here, it is a place where a witch can hide in her house of bones and a prince can bargain with his heart...where good and evil entwine and wear each others' faces... and where a bird with feathers of fire can quench the fiercest longing...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780441011575 (0441011578)
Publish date: June 1st 2004
Publisher: Ace Trade
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Lovely, lovely book from McKillip, with echoes of Russian fairy tales, and a great land-as-character setting. Plus, I liked the characters and just the whole thing. It’s not in my top five, but will definitely be one I re-read.
Set in a world where stories and dreams become real, In the Forests of Serre is a beautifully told fairy tale, complete with a beautiful (and strong) princess, a cursed broken-hearted prince, a wily wizard and an ogre of a king. The story draws you in, and just as Gyre fell in love with the magic of...
This book is McKillip's not so much re-told, but re-imagined legend of the witch Baba Yaga and the Firebird.Princess Sidonie is sent to wed a prince from a neighboring kingdom to form a political alliance and keep peace. But Prince Ronan is still mournng the death of his previous wife and his child,...
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