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The bestselling author of the immensely popular Mithgar books now turns his unique talents to a phantasmic retelling of the classic French fairy tale, "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" in which a young woman enters into a strange, peril-filled marriage to a mysterious prince.Tags
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I love retellings of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" - just not this one, unfortunately. By the end, if I saw one more variation of "Oh Bear" or heard one more description of just how perfect Camille was, I was going to lose it. Pass on this one.
Charming, lovely fairy-tale. A retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, with flavour of [b:Beauty and the Beast, but even more of Cupid and Psyche. Not deep or memorable, but very nice indeed, lots of pretty little touches.The one jarring note was his attempt at using an archaic style. He tried a bit too hard, I think, without having a real feel for how the language should flow. Dropping 'did' into sentences at random doesn't really cover it.
Eh. It's a short, easy read. Cute, fun story. I felt that McKiernan pushed his views a little too much though. The story flow is interrupted and it's a bit preachy.
I picked this book up because of the cover illustration. East of the Sun and West of the Moon is one of my favorite folktales of all time. This book definitely did not disappoint! Because of that, I've devoured the whole series!
The first book in this series. It is a change of pace for Mckiernan. I like how he sets the plot up. Very traditonal Cinderella story.
Horrible. Utterly, completely, and almost unfathomably horrible. Takes the award for the worst fairy tale retelling ever!
I liked the strong female character.
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Dennis L. McKiernan was born in Moberly, Missouri on April 4, 1932. After a tour with the U.S. Air Force, he received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri in 1958 and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1964. He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in research and development for 31 years before show more becoming a full-time author. He began writing novels in 1977 while recuperating from an accident. His novels include The Iron Tower Trilogy, The Silver Call Duology, The Eye of the Hunter, The Caverns of Socrates, Once Upon a Winter's Night, and Silver Wolf, Black Falcon. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2002
- Dedication
- To all lovers, as well as to lovers of fairy tales, And to the many folks who grace The Encyclopedia Mithgar, The Halls of Mithgar, and The One-Eyed Crow.
- First words
- They lived in a one-room, stone cottage on the edge of Faery, there where the world ends and the mystical realm begins, there where golden sunshine abruptly becomes twilight all silver and grey, there where night on one side ... (show all)becomes instead on the other is darkness, sometimes absolute, sometimes illumined with a glorious scatter of bright stars and silvery moonlight, sometimes illumined by small, dancing luminosities atwinkle among hoary trees, there where low, swampy lands and crofters' fields and shadowed forests on this side change on that side into misty fens and untilled meadows and deep, dark, mysterious woods.
Forward: I don't remember when I heard my first fairy tale or even what it was. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I was just wondering whose silver tongue or golden pen is telling the tale we find ourselves in.
- Blurbers
- Wurts, Janny
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