Power of Three
This is the story of Ayna and Ceri, who both had Gifts, and of Gair, who thought he was ordinary. Gair spent his time gazing out onto the Moor and brooding. Ayna could answer questions about the future, Ceri could find things which were lost. Gair seems to have no Gift and knew he was a...
show more
This is the story of Ayna and Ceri, who both had Gifts, and of Gair, who thought he was ordinary. Gair spent his time gazing out onto the Moor and brooding. Ayna could answer questions about the future, Ceri could find things which were lost. Gair seems to have no Gift and knew he was a disappointment to his jovial, heroic father - who is Chief. Perhaps his feelings of not fitting in was what made him so curious about these other different sorts of beings who lived on the Moor - the Giants and the Dorig. Certainly it was because he believed he was ordinary that he did his best to become wise, and to learn as much as he could abou the three great Powers of Sun, Moon and Earth. And when the crisis came, Gair found the knowledge he had gained was to help save not only his own life but those of all his people.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007113705 (0007113706)
Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books
Pages no: 299
Edition language: English
Power of Three is. Um. Hard to describe, hard to sum up, but really, really fascinating. It begins as what looks like a strange, violent fairytale in a primitive world of indifferent Giants and warlike Dorig, a prehistorical, almost Celtic world where curses are real and leaders are arbitrary and ...
What I love about (99% of) Jones books is that, regardless of my current reading mood or habit, I can pick one up, be drawn in, and enjoy it the whole way through. In that respect, Power of Three did not disappoint.The plot moves at an ambling pace, most of the cast is quickly sketched with more det...
This one really disappointed me, as I had just read Diana Wynne Jone's [b:Castle in the Air|47520|Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2)|Diana Wynne Jones|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348000420s/47520.jpg|1003952] and ADORED it. She could have worked on credibility during the second half of h...
This book is incredible!!I love it so much. The plot, the writing, characters, development!!There's nothing I can flaw here.
DWJ Book Toast, #14Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite fantasy authors, growing up and now, and I was saddened by the news of her death. I can't say I'm overcome with emotion - as personal as some of her work is to me, its not like I knew her after all - but I wish I could put into words how I f...