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Author: Patricia A McKillip | Website
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The Bards of Bone Plain
The newest novel from the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bell at Sealey Head.
With "her exquisite grasp of the fantasist's craft"* (Publishers Weekly) Patricia A. McKillip now invites readers to discover a place that may only exist in the mystical wisdom of poetry and music.
Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight.
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Jan 18, 2011
Richly poetic prose that is at once familiar and epic -- McKillip's latest offering is a study in ballad-drenched imagery.
McKillip, as usual, has a fine hand with bringing a culture, an alien world to life whilst weaving in elements of the mundane and beloved. Even as one wonders at the magic that so easily comes to hand in her worlds and characters, their personalities are not unknown, not unloved.&n
The Bell at Sealey Head
Brand new from the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Solstice Wood.
Sealey Head is a small town on the edge of the ocean, a sleepy place where everyone hears the ringing of a bell no one can see. On the outskirts of town is an impressive estate, Aislinn House, where the aged Lady Eglantyne lies dying, and where the doors sometimes open not to its own dusty rooms, but to the wild majesty of a castle full of knights and princesses...
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Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Oct 23, 2008
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy
When reading a story by Patrica McKillip, it's about the journey, not the ending. At certain times, this can get frustrating when all one wants is more than just a hint of the happily ever after. I would have liked to know how Ysabo fared with that knight of the snow-white hair. I would also have loved to have known some more about Ridley's romance with Miranda. That said, every mysterious step of the way is
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