Taran wanderer
ISBN:
9780434926527 (0434926523)
Publish date: August 26th 1986
Publisher: Heinemann
Pages no: 187
Edition language: English
Series: The Chronicles of Prydain (#4)
The one question that's plagued Taran all his life is just who is he? Who is his family? Is there any chance at all that his family is some sort of nobility? This last question has taken on a new level of importance to him as he has realized that he's in love with a princess and can't do anything ab...
I'm so happy to have stuck with the early books in this series I was struggling with. There has been a wonderful improvement in the writing quality as the series moves on. It's finally feeling like the choppy--even lazy--writing has stopped getting in the way of a charming story. I hope I will fin...
Review coming soon.
I made it through Book 4 of the Chronicles of Prydain. Only one more to go and I can officially discard the shame of having never read one of the most lauded series in children's literature. ;) This book is, as the title suggests, all about Taran ... and the wandering he does. The pacing and plottin...
This coming-of-age story (moreso than the previous, though all have aspects of that) really focuses on Taran as a person, attending to parts of himself that don't deal in fantasy sword fights and evil rulers. Here he confronts much more mundane evils - people whose strength makes them cruel, the dif...
8 years ago
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