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The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown
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In Robin McKinley’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, an outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realmAerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.She makes friends with her... show more
In Robin McKinley’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, an outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realmAerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangero
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Publisher: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Series: Damar (#2)
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Inkspot Fancy
Inkspot Fancy rated it
3.0 And I didn't even talk about the dragons
I think it confuses some people, how I use the term "fairy tale" as a descriptor. Of course, there's the actual fairy tales, but generally when I use the term I'm using it to refer to something like this book - the sort of story where things appear because they are needed, no explanation is needed f...
Malin
Malin rated it
4.0 #CBR6 Book 131: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Disclaimer! This was granted to me by Open Road Integrated Media through NetGalley in return for a fair and unbiased review. Aerin is the lonely, ostracised daughter of the ruler of Damar. She has pale skin and fiery red hair amongst a people who are bronzed with dark hair. She cannot even remembe...
DunderSmark
DunderSmark rated it
1.0 The Hero and the Crown
It was ok. I liked the writing style but i thought a lot of stuff was weird. I thought her mentor had lived for a really long time but he falls in love with this eighteen year old, I thought that was really creepy. And i didn't really get how (I listened to the audiobook so I can't spell any of the ...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
4.5 The Hero and the Crown
There are things that McKinley does very well: the loner girl, her comfort with being out alone in nature, her interactions with critters (horses, cats, and dogs). This stuff is all brilliant. A girl who teaches herself how to fight dragons? That's a fabulous premise. Other aspects of the book I was...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
5.0 The Hero and the Crown
This was my introduction to Robin McKinley, and I couldn't have asked for better. I did love Sunshine, but goodness that one took a long time to get going--more than one friend of mine gave up on it. The Hero and the Crown is different. Not breathless, but certainly not slow-paced, and in Aerin McKi...
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