I don't know what to say really. I read the reviews and thought this book was going to be awesome. I started it and well it was different. It was rather slow and I got bored. So I stopped. This book required a lot of concentration to grasp the idea. I started reading it again yesterday and I saw it ...
This is the third book by Robin Mckinley that I have read and I’ve come to notice a formula she seems to follow:Protagonist doesn’t quite fit in with her surroundings Protagonist removed from her surroundingsProtagonist discovers her heritage, which conveniently comes with ample powersProtagonist is...
With a girl named Harry, you can’t go wrong!The Blue Sword is one of those gems you’ll find on a pile of forgotten books. Books with smelly, yellow tinted pages in a secondhand bookstore. I had never heard of Robin McKinley. And unfortunately, neither did my dad back in the days when he read me bedt...
I don’t get it. I just don’t. Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword has been acclaimed as one of the most remarkable fantasy novels of our age, but I am unable to see why. I suppose the best way I can describe The Blue Sword is to tell you that it is similar to a camp-fire story – entertaining, filled...
2.5 Stars, but I rounded up because of the world building.This is a story about a girl named Harry who goes to stay with a nice childless couple in a desert after the death of her father. Her brother is stationed at the little outpost there, and unlike most of the people, Harry finds that she really...
The Blue Sword was just as amazing as I remembered it. Sure, that is probably a good dose of nostalgia and fondness talking but while it is not perfect, even after all these years I still love, love, love this book. First of all, look at that cover. That person---the one galloping toward you on a...
I missed my “Robin McKinley window” by about thirty years. If I had had the good fortune to come across this novel when I was fourteen, I’m sure I would have sought out more of her work and enjoyed them to the same extent as I enjoyed authors such as Andre Norton or Lloyd Alexander (whom I did have ...
Harry is a young woman, orphaned, and sent out to live near her brother who is in the army and posted at the back of beyond in a new colony of the Queen. [For Homeland I read Britain, for Damar I read Afghanistan, for Queen I read Victoria, although one doesn't have to.] Harry soon finds that she is...
The story is amazing, this kind of plot, author's style is definitely my cup of tea. Well, at the beginning the story seems to big a little slow but after third chapters it's great. A girl named Harry is capable of wielding the Blue Sword and using it but she doesn't know that. King Damar learns th...
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