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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;Brand new from the World Fantasy Award-winning author of &lt;I&gt;Solstice Wood&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; Sealey Head is a small town on the edge of the ocean, a sleepy place where everyone hears the ringing of a bell no one can see. On the outskirts of town is an impressive estate, Aislinn House, where the aged Lady Eglantyne lies dying, and where the doors sometimes open not to its own dusty rooms, but to the wild majesty of a castle full of knights and princesses&#8230;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Patricia A. McKillip]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Patricia A. McKillip" title=" Patricia A. McKillip"> Patricia A. McKillip</a>'s form of magic. It manifests in the speaking of riddles and opening doors. It is learned by studying the contours of an orange peel and by looking at books found in broom closets. Her settings are lavish- in lost castles and creaking old houses, in the underground of a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25817065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The doors of a crumbling manor open into another world that lives under an enchantment of ritual.  The only connection between the two worlds is the bell that tolls at sunset every day, until a stranger comes to town, determined to find out what lies behind the mystery of the bell.    <em>The Bell at Se...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42496984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Patricia McKillip is one of a short list of authors whose books I will buy without having read them before. Although this was not my favorite of her books (my favorites include Winter Rose and its companion novel Solstice Wood, and I love her Riddle-Master of Hed series), I enjoyed the story. McKill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41337239">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite McKillip novels, second only to <em>Tower at Stony Brook</em>.<br/><br/>Imagine a small coastal town where inhabitants have always heard a bell toll the end of the day--a bell no one has seen. Although many have stopped noticing it and there are as many stories as to where the so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17984559">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of McKillip's books are brilliant, but for some reason this one drew me in less than some of her other recent stories.  I was actually a little disappointed by the time I finished it.  It's difficult to put my finger on exactly why.  Perhaps because I'm more used to her more lyrical and poetic r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30576201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While the magic is less obvious is McKillip's latest enchanting novel, <em>The Bell at Sealey Head</em>, it underscores everything.  Most of the characters are 'ordinary' when it comes to spellcasting, but they are all rather extraordinary in the hands of a storyteller without peer.  A bell tolls each day at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33959896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[McKillip is just sheer magic -- I've NEVER come across a fantasy writer with her talent for writing such luminous poetic novels. They are literally a feast for the imagination. Although everything wrapped up a little too quickly and neatly on this one for me to be completely happy, I truly enjoyed r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39002472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read and loved books by this author in the past, and I thought I was going to love this one, too.<br/><br/>The setting of this tale is magical and enchanting. Sealey Head is a village overlooking the sea, where every evening at sunset, villagers hear the ringing of a mysterious, unseen bell. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50178437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be honest; I love McKillip's writing, but often find myself reading her work for the sheer beauty of the language, all the while a bit confused by the plot.  However, <em>The Bell at Sealey Head</em>is a bit more straightforward than her work usually is, though the whole time I was reading it I kept ask...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59596986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's not much of a feeling of peril or huge things at stake and the final battle is something of an anticlimax in Patricia A. McKillip's <em>The Bell at Sealey Head</em>, but the book was a pleasant, atmospheric read in often poetic language populated by characters I was interested in. Like most of her bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47551102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminded me of Robin McKinley's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3682.A_Great_and_Terrible_Beauty_Gemma_Doyle_1_" title="A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray">Beauty</a>:  both feature young women in an unspecified past (resembling 18th-19th century Europe) who encounter a castle just a little more magic than it should be.  Enchantment doesn't overwhelm either book; it peeks from around corners and from inside the bud...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63231326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every evening, just at sundown, a ghostly bell rings just once in the village of Sealey Head. Most of its inhabitants don't even notice it anymore, but a couple of them wonder about its mystery, and an enigmatic stranger is determined, with their help, to solve it.<br/><br/>This is the premise of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57900951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[★ ★ ★ ½ It was a good book, but not a favorite. Too many threads. It felt like a long journey to the ending, but not enough time spent at the destination. <br/><br/>The evil sorcerer was vanquished by characters brought onto the stage of the story within pages before his imprisonment. The m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44832440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     In one short chapter--even though we haven't yet met all of the characters nor discerned a plot--, McKillip manages to get me immersed right into the world she created, connected with one of the main characters, and settled in with the feel of this new place. How does she do that so effortlessl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74843562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though it's more story-driven than McKillip's books usually are, the writing is still beautiful, the characters still rich and the magic still deep. The plot of this book was more fun and the relationships more charming than her other works; The Bell at Sealey Head just has a lighter tone that makes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74689690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thought about reading this, got through the first chapter or two, but the prose is just so FLOWERY, I was really put off.  McKillip never uses just one adjective when she can use three or four or more!  The guy isn't just wearing a black jacket, it's also &quot;flapping like bat's wings&quot; ... th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63988369">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this charming story about a seaside town that holds a secret so secret that no one really knows about it. It starts with a bell. It rings the sun down. Every day. No one can remember it being any other way. It continues with a house and doors that open up to a different version of the hous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69905244">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always have to read McKillip twice (or thrice) to pull out all the themes she's writing about.  I love her beautiful language.  In this one, like in Shadows of Ombria, there is a confluence of fantasy and reality.  And like in Cygnet and Firebird characters are trapped in their stories.  The frami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56213643">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love McKillip's books.  Not only are they well-written with interesting characters, but they have a misty/mystic feel to them that carries me away from myself.<br/><br/>This book is about a bell that rings every sunset, even though no one knows where it is, and about the people who try to figure...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76624889">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yup, it's a McKillip.  Always worth the time to read, but they're so very distinctively *her* that there's sometimes not much more to say.  I happened to be particularly fond of several of the character-sets in this one, although a little aggravated by the ending, which didn't quite do what I was ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53642135">more...</a>]]></body>
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