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Loading... The Blue Sword (1982)by Robin McKinley
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No current Talk conversations about this book. I'm rereading this for the ?th time as counterpoint to Game of Thrones. I love pretty much everything RMcK has written but have a soft spot for Blue Sword and Hero and the Crown...a little romance, a little fantasy, a little magic, a little adventure, a little you-go-girl. She crafts her stories so well and writes so smoothly, and has an effortless way of revealing her worlds to her readers. (  ) MelissaZD | Jan 1, 2014 |  I'm rereading this for the ?th time as counterpoint to Game of Thrones. I love pretty much everything RMcK has written but have a soft spot for Blue Sword and Hero and the Crown...a little romance, a little fantasy, a little magic, a little adventure, a little you-go-girl. She crafts her stories so well and writes so smoothly, and has an effortless way of revealing her worlds to her readers. ( ) MelissaZD | Jan 1, 2014 | After moving to a remote corner of the Homelander empire after her father dies, Angharad, known as Harry, is surprised to find that she, an outlander, loves the harsh desert. However, when she is taken by the mysterious Hill king, she finds that her destiny lies in the Hills and that the fate of her adopted country lies with her. McKinley’s epic fantasy is set in a richly imagined world, with both detail and suspense. Neither the romance between Harry and the Hill king nor the war again the demon Northerners lose anything by being less explicit than many current dystopian novels, making The Blue Sword appropriate for strong readers in younger grades and for teen readers looking for adventure without graphic sex or blood. Social commentary on colonialism runs throughout the book, but does not disturb the narrative. Readers will be pleased to find that there is a prequel in the form of The Hero and the Crown. As one of the early fantasy heroines, Harry has survived the test of time, even if the tone of her story seems to have gentled over the years. ( ) kahansen | Nov 30, 2013 | 3043  BRCSBooks | Oct 2, 2013 | I love this book, the sequel to Hero and the Crown. It's not as good as the first one though. Not to say it isn't still goo. It's very different from the first, almost a whole new world. Not a bad thing, just weird. But it is cool to see how this world has changed and the lasting impact that the people in the first book have had on it. ( ) HeartbreakDX | Aug 14, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0441068804, Mass Market Paperback)Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. Her life is quiet and ordinary-until the night she is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk King, who takes her deep into the desert. She does not know the Hillfolk language; she does not know why she has been chosen. But Corlath does. Harry is to be trained in the arts of war until she is a match for any of his men. Does she have the courage to accept her true fate? (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:17:56 -0400) Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. |
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