Songmaster
A haunting story of power and love—a tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away.
A haunting story of power and love—a tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429966849 (142996684X)
Publish date: December 6th 2002
Publisher: Orb Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I can't help but find this a remarkable book in many ways. The characters really live for me, and several are quite complex--certainly not simple to evaluate as good or evil. And I loved the world Card created of the Songhouse. This is a place where even common communications are made by song. I fel...
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I was debating between 3 and 4 for a while, because I liked it, but it was a rather sad book, not to mention I liked the first half better than the second. The second felt hurried, and while I was hoping the book would show more of what happened after the point where the short story ended, I was rat...
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