The Unlikely Ones
by Mary Brown
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Read in October, 2007
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An enchanting adult fairytale. Seven victims of an evils witch questing to free themselves of her curse, and solution to their problem is the dragon from whom she stole years ago in a world similar to the Earth in the middle ages - with a few additions.
The book begins with a dragon's sorrow at losing the hard-won treasure that would have enabled him to become a master-dragon and rejoin his kind.
In a seemingly unrelated episode, a witch tries to entrap a Prince, but his unicorn intervene...more
The book begins with a dragon's sorrow at losing the hard-won treasure that would have enabled him to become a master-dragon and rejoin his kind.
In a seemingly unrelated episode, a witch tries to entrap a Prince, but his unicorn intervene...more
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Read in June, 2007
I should have known it was bad; both Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey are quoted as liking it. Various creatures captured and mistreated by a witch escape and seek their fortunes together. And of course the main character is secretly a beautiful young maiden convinced of her ugliness, and of course she falls in love with someone she thinks far above her station, and of course the two slowly grow to understand each other, and I assume that at the end, she turns out to be beautiful. I don'...more
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Read in January, 2002
If you like adventure stories and root for the underdog of stories and love animals---you will definetly love this. I felt like the characters had become my family and friends during the time I read this and I became very attached to them.
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I read this as a teen, and thought it was one of the best books I'd ever laid hands on at the time. I'd like to find the book again to see if it is still so brilliant to me.
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Read in June, 2008
I usually like my female protagonists to be a bit more feminist. Cute story even though its obvious where its going. Its more about the path taken then the end result.
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I read this as a young adult and found it very interesting. No idea if it'd hold up now, but I still have a copy of it.
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I read this after devouring "Playing the Jack," and even though fantasy isn't my cup of tea, I really enjoyed it.
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Read in January, 2001
totally unexpected from a new (to me) author. Simple and fast read.
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