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The Bards Of Bone Plain (2010)

by Patricia A. McKillip(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0441019579 (ISBN13: 9780441019571)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ace Hardcover

review 1: This was a fun book; by the end, I really wanted to know what was going to happen, and it was fun to figure things out alongside the characters. I enjoyed the story a lot and the writing slightly less. I don't read a lot of fantasy, so maybe I am not totally accustomed to some standards or different expectations? I do wish the word "husky" or "huskily" had been used significantly less frequently (always in the context of a speaking voice, never a husky young lad -- can't get enough of those).
review 2: I discovered McKillip a few months ago and have really been enjoying her work. But this book is so unsuccessful that it has put me off her for a while. I'm not quite sure what she was trying to do (in part because I admit I was so bored and frustrated that I st... morearted skimming about two-thirds of the way through), but whatever it was, she didn't succeed. The plot plods; the characters are either thinly drawn or unsympathetic--or both; and the steampunk/fantasy blend doesn't really resonate as a believable world. Just skip this one. less

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