by Stuart Hill
An okay children's read, from an adult's standpoint. I'd love to teach it to my English class one day, though. It would make an excellent material for tackling all the important social issues a middle school student should be able to handle.
"How do we know we can trust you?" "You don't know that you know you can trust me. You'll just have to trust me."Paraphrasing, but that's the gist of it. I quite like the premise but this book was written with children in mind, or so it seemed. The King's behaviour made me want to throw up all over ...
I read this when I was very young, and the title to this novel has been evading me ever since.....damn you in any case, I found it so...there
Cry of the Icemark was a stirring military fantasy adventure. The author really took the time to bring the cultures of this novel to life. I could see that Icemark people seemed to be modelled after the Scandinavians, while Thyrrin's mother's peoples, the Hypollitan must have been based on the Ama...
From the very first page, Stuart Hill throws you right into the story. It opens will our heroine, Thirrin, being attack by a creature of which I will not speak. The battle is short but grabs our interest and makes us want to learn more about Thirrin's world. Her father is King of the Icemark, a land...
It took a while to get into, but I found myself enjoying it. It finished so that I don't have to read the next book if I don't want to, and right now I don't feel the need. I liked the ending as it was. :)
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