Faery in Shadow
by C. J. Cherryh
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Cursed and exiled for patricide, Caith Mac Sliaban enters a hill-farm which holds two golden youths - a boy and a girl - and falls into a dark and dangerous adventure in the black castle of the witch of Dun Glas. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Downbelow Station.Tags
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arethusarose Faery Moon is an ebook - a revised version of Faery in Shadow, rewritten to make it the book Cherryh wanted it to be. The ebook is available from the author at http://www.closed-circle.net/
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I love most of Cherryh's science fiction that I've read to date, and Cyteen is my favorite novel. I also thought well of the story "The Brothers" which this story is a sequel or continuation of. With that said:
This was a hard book to read through. I just couldn't get into it the way I do Cherryh's science fiction stories; I only managed to finish it by reminding myself that every page turned left me that much closer to the end.
Apart from "The Brothers" and other short stories that I might be forgetting at the moment, this is the only Cherryh fantasy that I've read, so I don't know if it's her fantasy novels in general that I don't like, or just this one.
This was a hard book to read through. I just couldn't get into it the way I do Cherryh's science fiction stories; I only managed to finish it by reminding myself that every page turned left me that much closer to the end.
Apart from "The Brothers" and other short stories that I might be forgetting at the moment, this is the only Cherryh fantasy that I've read, so I don't know if it's her fantasy novels in general that I don't like, or just this one.
Difficult to read, difficult to follow. Dialogue written in brogue. Plot and its twists difficult to follow... I plodded my way through it without much joy - only relief in knowing that my torment was over.
Caith the hero and Dubhain the Sidhe trickster... Unwilling participants in a game of intrigue among demi-gods.
Caith the hero and Dubhain the Sidhe trickster... Unwilling participants in a game of intrigue among demi-gods.
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A multiple award-winning author of more than thirty novels, C. J. Cherryh received her B.A. in Latin from the University of Oklahoma, and then went on to earn a M.A. in Classics from Johns Hopkins University. Cherryh's novels, including Tripoint, Cyteen, and The Pride of Chanur, are famous for their knife-edge suspense and complex, realistic show more characters. Cherryh won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1977. She was also awarded the Hugo Award for her short story Cassandra in 1979, and the novels Downbelow Station in 1982 and Cyteen in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1993-08
- Epigraph
- "... Magic is such a troubled pot. Ye stir a mother's desire into it, ye stir in a witch's schemes, and a priest of some power's counter-workings, and ye cannae say what kind of stew may cout fra' out of it ..."
- First words
- The water flowed first from a spring in Teile, clear as glass, and out of the loch in Gleann Teile it emerged rich, peat-dark, its brown-stained bubbles swirling over tumbled basalt.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The wight never missed a step, not one.
- Disambiguation notice
- Faery in Shadow has a revised edition in ebook format called Faery Moon. Do not combine these titles; they are sufficiently different that they should be treated as different books. The titles differ, also.
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