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Posted 2017-02-19 11:14 PM (#15329 - in reply to #15312)
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JohnBem - 2017-02-18 7:22 PM

I've finished The Riddle-Master of Hed, book one in Patricia A. McKillip's "Riddlemaster" trilogy. It is the second McKillip book I've read (the first being The Forgotten Beasts of Eld back before I joined WWE). This is a beautiful, magical book. It is very much the first book of a series as it ends on a great cliffhanger well-designed to launch a reader into book two. I'm particularly taken by McKillip's unique style of writing; I rhapsodize about it a bit in my review. Riddle-Master deals with standard high-fantasy themes, but does so in an oblique fashion that makes this novel stand above the usual fantasy story. Recommended.


Sounds brilliant! We have a copy of this at my bookstore; maybe I'll snag it.

For my part, I've started The Slow Regard of Silent Things, a novella that ties in to the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. So we'll see how that goes. I loved the rest of the series and am beginning to run out of patience with the fact that the third book is not done yet.

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