The Hero and the Crown
From childhood, Aerin had been haunted by the story of her mother - a "witchwoman" who enspelled the king and then died in childbirth, leaving behind a newborn daughter and an heirless land. Left to her own devices, Aerin grew up wild, doing her best to live up to her reputation as the...
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From childhood, Aerin had been haunted by the story of her mother - a "witchwoman" who enspelled the king and then died in childbirth, leaving behind a newborn daughter and an heirless land. Left to her own devices, Aerin grew up wild, doing her best to live up to her reputation as the disappointment of the realm. But little did the young princess know the long-dormant powers of her mother would wield their own destiny, and leave Aerin with a duty to her scornful homeland that she couldn't refuse.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780441013050 (0441013058)
Publish date: January 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
Series: Damar (#2)
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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