by Patricia A. McKillip
Heart-breaking, atmospheric and unforgettable.This story was all I could ask for, and more.It doesn't need three hundred or four hundred pages, much of them filled with boring details to tell its story.It slowly arrives, it tells its tale, it imprints it in our hearts and minds, and calmly goes away...
A delightfully bittersweet tale of magicians, sea dragons, old and new love, lost princes and, above all, periwinkles. It's my first Patricia A. McKillip. I searched all over for fantasy books that might inspire me now that NaNoWriMo is just around the corner and I've decided to dabble in a fantas...
Lovely, sweet little story.
Some books fail to live up to nostalgia-tinged memories. Some books remain solid years later. And some books are even better than you remember. This one's definitely in the latter category.It's a fairy tale first and foremost, so don't read it if you're looking for detailed worldbuilding or rules of...
This short, standalone novel (a novella really) written in McKillip's usual beautiful yet elliptical style is exactly the sort of thing that I come to expect from her work.A lowly scullery maid, who's fisher father died at sea and who's mother is psychologically lost to the sea, hates the ocean and ...
I read this book every so often just because it makes me so happy. All of the descriptions use objects and colors of the sea, so the whole book has a feeling. The story flows along without effort and I fall in and breath in the atmosphere. Its only fault is that it ends.
Creative and unique. It wasn't exactly action packed, but instead kept things interesting at a steady pace. I'm going to check out more of McKillip's work.
Originally posted at Paperback Wonderland.Sometimes people ask me to recommend a book and it usually goes a bit like this:Hipster girl: Hey do you know which book I shoul--Me: [b:The Changeling Sea|59|The Changeling Sea|Patricia A. McKillip|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1313430180s/59.jpg|2085180]!~*...
I’ve tried reading The Tower at Stony Wood several times and have never gotten through it. I think I just had the wrong book, because this one was excellent. [Sept. 2008]-----The first McKillip book I ever read. I can see why I liked it and kept reading–there’s a lovely iridescence to this one and I...
I am bias; I admit that anything to do with sea generally pulls my interest in. With mermaids or in this case, mermen, I'm helplessly sucked under the spell of the storyteller. Ms. McKillip's unique style of writing made this story alluring and fulfilling for me. I enjoyed every word of it. I re...
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