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Angela Danus adanus — Now this is a spooky book very appropriate

Eugene Khanenko _ugene_hanenko — Reading this again, since the 3rd book in the series recently came out. I read this years ago when it came out, so I decided I needed a refresher. Still love it!

Florian Defaix mazup — When I read the description this sounded to me as if Patricia McKillip had taken bits of the ideas and tropes of Riddle-Master of Hed and explored them in a slightly different fashion. Since I particularly adore that trilogy (or omnibus, depending on when you've discovered it), that intrigued me enough to buy it. I'm happy to say that this is - to me - exactly what it is. Now, this is a 250 pages book on my ebook reader at 12pt font size, Riddle-Master is a trilogy - of course certain pieces are missing. We lose a strong heroine fully developed (Raederle), we lose the exploration of the influence of kingship/power over the land (which we had various versions and explorations in various countries in the trilogy), we lose the in-depth development of family ties bar those between children and parents, we have far fewer protagonists and far fewer simultaneous quests. We keep the power of music(Nairn, Zoe, Welkin, Declan, Kelda) and riddles (Phelan, Nairn, Beatrice, Jonah), the power of the older magic and the problems of inheriting it (Declan, Zoe, Quellen, Nairn), family relationships between children and parents (Phelan and his parents, Beatrice and her parents), the danger of challenging a power and needing to overcome it (Nairn, Phelan, Zoe) but the focus of the story remains on Nairn and Phelan - everything else is subsumed - especially the very tacked-on love story. I was satisfied, but my biggest impulse now is to re-read Riddle-Master which gave me so much more of these tropes and explored them so much better. But then again - I don't think there could have been another Riddle-Master of Hed - that trilogy is perfect in and of itself (it should be made into a Ghibli movie by Miyazaki). I think McKillip could take the world of this book and explore, do stand-alones here, that would work ^^. I wouldn't want that for Riddle-Master, that story is already perfect to me.

Gabriela Ramirez gabramqui — SUCH A POWERFUL ENDING. This would make an amazing movie, if done right. This book was mildly confusing for the first 200 pages (or maybe just for me -- I was confused by all the old foreign guys doing different things), but things get cleared up really quickly toward the later part of the book, and- just- how things all came together, making the conclusion succinct and bittersweet, and, like I said, just really powerful. And the POEM AT THE END. I always admire a good ending, and Nicole Krauss did a stunning job with this. Just one good excerpt: The grass was slippery with mud. In the distance I could see a rowboat tied to the dock. I looked out across the water. Must have been a good swimmer, took after his father, I thought with pride. My own father, who had great respect for nature, had dropped each of us into the river soon after we were born, before our ties to the amphibians, so he claimed, were cut completely. My sister Hanna blamed her lisp on the trauma of this memory. I'd like to think that I would have done it differently. I would have held my son in my hands. I would have told him, Once upon a time you were a fish. A fish? he'd have asked. That's what I'm telling you, a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. How long? Long. Anyway, being a fish, you used to know how to swim. I did? Sure. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought: Perhaps this is what it means to be a father -- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.