Remember back in the day when it didn't take 15 1000p books to tell an awesome story? I miss those days.So this book is one of those fantasy classics I should have read, I was told to read, and never did get around to. And once again, I am heartily sorry I didn't, though I am pleased to have done ...
It's always a pleasure seeing an author get better. In our last episode, I gave a less-than-enthusiastic review to The Blue Sword and so was a little hesitant to begin this book. But there were enough good points about McKinley's writing that I wasn't dreading the experience.As it turns out, I enjoy...
A good book, but, as with Spindle's End, I find that Robin McKinley doesn't seem to have a handle on the action and climactic confrontations. As though elements - scores of animals seem to work nicely - are suddenly thrown in to allow the character to defeat the bad guy and save the world. In this c...
There is so much to say about this book that I don't think I know how I can say it all. Let me begin by this: This book, though it is a fantasy book, rises far above the stories of fantasy that I have read and stands alone almost as none of the others do. In comparison to this, you expect half-rate ...
Aerin may be the king's daughter, but you wouldn't know it from the looks, the stares, the snickers, the pranks, or the court gossip. Her father loved and married Aerin's mother after his first wife died childless. But being from the North, of unknown heritage and lineage, suspicions of witchcraft...
This book had a promising start. The world McKinley envisioned was different, and didn’t have the fairytale feel that her other novels tend to have. And I rather enjoyed the story’s premise—Aerin’s questionable parentage, the story that her mother died of despair upon learning she gave birth to a da...
The Hero and the Crown tells the story of Aerin, the king's daughter, who feels that she doesn't fit into the Damarian society, as she looks different and doesn't display the Gift of the royal family. She is also a scientist, intent on making a special elixir that will enable a person to withstand f...
I read this first in 1989 in the back of my dad's pickup truck (back when you could get away with that) on our way to South Dakota. I've read it countless times since and it never fails to entertain.
I loved The Hero and the Crown (I'm so looking for it next time I'm at a bookstore)!!! It is by far one of the best fantasy books I have ever read, the characters were great, especially Aerin the heroine of the book. The story was quite interesting (I started it right after I finished reading Ink Ex...
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