The Gift
by Patrick O'Leary
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Science FictionLarge Print EditionOLeary displays his mastery of fantasy and social motifs, weaving familiar themes into a heartwarming, enchanting story. starred, Publishers Weekly A story within a story, The Gift is a story of innocence betrayed and magic rejected. Tim is robbed of his childhood, and Simon is tormented by hearing made too acute. Both are victims of The User of the Night, once a boy like them, now pathetically twisted by his own ambition and by Tomen, a malevolent show more creatureof magic. Together Simon and Tim must rid their land of the magic that has been misused by Tomen and The User. show lessTags
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A journey into the dark and mysterious where perspective changes everything. Really a beautiful and sophisticated work. Excellent detail and development, throughly enjoyable and complete for a book of this short a length.
A number of intriguing pieces. Not quite sure if they add up to an equally interesting whole.
I hate to say it, but I just couldn't finish this one. I really wanted to and it probably wouldn't have take that much effort to do so as it is a relatively short novel coming in at under 300 pages. But after fighting my way through half of it, I just didn't see the point in going any further. I didn't connect with any of the characters, in fact I felt confused most of the time as there seemed to be point of view and time jumps in the middle of a sentence at times. Just didn't have the energy to fight through it any more.
A master class in the art of storytelling.
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- Original publication date
- 1997
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- Members
- 181
- Popularity
- 180,019
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.76)
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1
