by Melanie Rawn
This is the first book in the Glass Thorns series and OF COURSE it ends with a cliffhanger and a bunch of unanswered questions! Classic Rawn, that. :) Touchstone is set in an interesting world, peopled by different mythical races and racial mixes - I honestly don't think there was a 'pureblood...
DNFI could not connect with the characters or the story. Perhaps I'll pick this up at a later date. More thoughts found here at my blog: http://bit.ly/YjTTDH
Most Fantasy today is either Urban Fantasy with Elves, Trolls and other assorted monsters traipsing through the modern day world; or High Fantasy wherby Kingdoms are threatened by evildoers of many stripes or other rival kingdoms in mutiple volume series of varying complexity.Touchstone is a differe...
Touchstone tells the story of the traveling theater-ish group of the same name. They get together and go through some trials but mostly successes. The man action is between group founder Cayden and group newbie Meika. Cayden likes order and Meika is crazy, but Meika's talent is the one thing really ...
I'm agreeing with all the other 2 star & lower reviews. Clunky writing & not much in the plot. It also comes off as racist with Mieka's uncle and the ear mutilation. Rawn also seems to be trying to ape Trudi Canavan with the homosocial implications between Cade & Mieka and Cade & Kearney. It might h...
Touchstone was an interesting fantasy in a well-developed world. Cayden is an aristocratic young man whose dream is to be part of the theater world rather than be part of the court world. This puts him into conflict with his social climbing mother. The characters in this world are all blends of vari...
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