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by Elizabeth Wein
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between4walls
between4walls rated it 11 years ago
"'Can you even love?' 'Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother.'" This is a book I wish I had written. It is a first novel, and cool and sharp and glittering, like a heavy, hanging icicle. It is very dark, with just enough hints of the backstory to le...
Something clever I'll change later
Something clever I'll change later rated it 11 years ago
I didn't think this was rave awesome awesome like a lot of the reviewers on here, but it was alright. I generally love Arthurian stuff. I've read a shit ton, and this was an interesting take on Mordrid. The part at the end where they're walking through the woods as prisoner/generic douchebag drug on...
Stuti's blog for depleting ships
Stuti's blog for depleting ships rated it 11 years ago
No can do, folks. Good book overall, but it isn't holding my attention.
JennieBasset
JennieBasset rated it 12 years ago
Odd and compelling and full of treachery and deceit.
Deirdre
Deirdre rated it 12 years ago
I think fans of Megan Whalen Turner might love this one.It is an amazingly original Arthurian retelling, from the point of view of Medraut (Mordred), who is -- and struggles to be-- an awesome character, despite the way his circumstances, and particularly his mother, have twisted him.The conflicted ...
Keertana @ Ivy Book Bindings
Keertana @ Ivy Book Bindings rated it 13 years ago
Rating: 3.5 StarsI can truthfully say that I have never read a book like The Winter Prince ever before and I don't think I ever will, simply because the characters are so tortured, the plot so unique, and the ideas so haunting. Perhaps I should start off by saying that The Winter Prince is not a boo...
Emily May (The Book Geek)
Emily May (The Book Geek) rated it 13 years ago
It is probably for the best that I didn't realise this book was written by the same author as a book that recently disappointed me - Code Name Verity - because, although everyong else seemed to enjoy this WW2 story of friendship, I found myself bored. The Winter Prince, on the other hand, never lost...
ambyr
ambyr rated it 14 years ago
This is a good book, I think, (it's certainly beautiful writing), but not one that really captured me. I think perhaps I would have enjoyed it more when I was younger and had more tolerance for angst. I guess if I had to pick one word to describe it, it would be "claustrophobic." It's told first-per...
By Singing Light
By Singing Light rated it 15 years ago
by Elizabeth WeinI kept hearing this title and author in the book recommendation threads on Sounis and then several other people mentioned it. So I finally checked it out. And, man, were they ever right!Except for the prologue, the book is told in first person, from the point of view of Medraut, t...
altheaann
altheaann rated it 16 years ago
This is a companion novel to “A Coalition of Lions". Sequentially, it comes before ‘Coalition,’ but both are fully stand-alone novels – where ‘Coalition’ tells a story from the perspective of the princess Goewin, ‘Winter Prince’ is her brother Medraut’s story. But more than his story, it is an explo...
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