Spellhorn

A time or mind travel fantasy featuring a blind girl, Laura, who becomes sighted when she meets the unicorn, Spellhorn and journeys to the Bright Wilderness with the Wild Ones. I love the unicorn mythology and Doherty's creation of the Wild Ones, part human, part animal, and their "picture-word" (based on Anglo-Saxon "kenning") language. For example, Sloe describes the exhausted Laura as "wearylegs and eye-droop." Of unicorns, she says: "They seem to belong to a better time, a simpler time, that we all have a yearning to go back to." I feel this way sometimes, and that is why I love good fantasy so much. Backmatter by the author reveals that the story was originally written for radio with children from a school for the blind. She also show more includes beliefs about unicorns and a brief interview. show less

Because the weather was depressing me (last weeks have been great, but the last two days the weather has changed. It's all dreary and cold now.) I wanted something quick and easy to read. And that is exactly what this book gave me. I think I would have really loved it when I was younger. I still think it was enjoyable enough. Nice story with a slightly weird ending.

It was a nice book although the ending was a bit confusing for me for some reason