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Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
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Solstice Wood

by Patricia A. McKillip

Series: Winter Rose (2)

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this book was good but a bit confusing. ( )
  susiesharp | Aug 1, 2009 |
Not as good as McKillip's best work. Confusing and confused. ( )
  librisissimo | Jan 17, 2009 |
I very much enjoyed this lovely, wonder-ful tale by Patricia McKillip! Told in the different voices of the characters, "Solstice Wood" engaged me completely and transported me to its magical setting. I totally fell in love with McKillip's writing and am looking forward to reading more of her works. ( )
  thioviolight | Jan 2, 2009 |
I liked this book. The writing was beautiful; it was spell-binding. It was somewhat confusing when each chapter was from a different point of view (I would have liked headings at the top of the page letting me know who was talking...I had to keep flipping back to keep the story straight). Overall, it was enchanting...full of possibilities and maybes. ( )
  MrsHillReads | Sep 18, 2008 |
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Summoned home for her grandfather's funeral, Sylvia Lynn arrives with the intention of leaving as soon as possible. Once there, however, she feels the treacherous pull of the old house, the shadowy forest around it and the otherworldly beings who live there. Sylvia's grandmother introduces her to the Fiber Guild, women who meet once a month to sew the magical barriers that protect Lynn Hall from the fay, "a cold, loveless, dangerous people." But the hall's protective magic has weakened, leaving Sylvia-both mortal and faery herself-vulnerable as "the bridge across the boundaries" between the two worlds. Can generations of mistrust and long-hoarded secrets yield to a truce, let alone a new understanding and even trust between faery and human? Though McKillip has traded her usual lyrical style for a sparser approach, she doesn't stint on characterization, mood or mystery in this multilayered tale.

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 044101366X, Hardcover)

No stranger to the realms of myth and magic, World Fantasy Award winning author Patricia A. McKillip presents her first contemporary fantasy in years. Solstice Wood is a tale of the tangled lives we mere mortals lead, when we turn our eyes from the beauty and mystery that lie just outside of the everyday.

When her beloved grandfather dies, bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn knows she must finally return to her childhood home in upstate New York and face the grandmother who raised her and the woods which so beguiled- and frightened-her. But it's not until she meets the Fiber Guild-a group of local women who meet to knit, embroider, and sew-that Sylvia learns why her grandmother watches her so. A primitive power exists in the forest, a force the Fiber Guild seeks to bind in its stitches and weavings. And Sylvia is no stranger to the woods.

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