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    <body><![CDATA[I sat down and read this grippingly passionate tale in the space of 4 hours. I was hooked from the first page and I realised around halfway through that my mouth was dry, I had a frown of concentration furrowing my brows and I had a crook in my neck from not moving for a long time... The sense of di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77631392">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is without a doubt my favorite Patricia McKillip book.  Her style flows beautifully throughout the entire book.  The main character is Rois, a young woman who doesn't quite fit with her colonial family.  She loves to roam the woods and doesn't know how to act 'normal'.  It is when she is wander...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77509965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautifully written, near-hallucinatory little novel, almost breathless in its telling of the story of a young man, Corbet Lynn, who returns to the ruins of his ancestral home, Lynn Hall, and starts to rebuild.  There's a village rumor of a family curse, a dying man's words no one can quit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61423013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read some <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25.Patricia_A_McKillip" title="Patricia A. McKillip">Patricia A. McKillip</a> before, but I can't remember exactly what or when.  This book reminded me so strongly of my favorite parts of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5339.Robin_McKinley" title="Robin McKinley">Robin McKinley</a>'s work that I'm going to have to read more McKillip.<br/>The book is set in the same sort of fairy-tale, peasant era that so many fantasy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69972874">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't bring myself to finish this.  I tried my utmost to like it, and I've gotten to the point where I feel a kind of moral obligation to finish a book once I start it, but I just couldn't do it. I know P. McKillip's style is all 'dreamy' and 'lyrical' or whatever, good for her, but I don't enj...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77825313">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Winter Rose</em> begins as the seemingly simple story of Rois and Laurel Melior and their understandable fascination with young Corbet Lynn, returned to rebuild his abandoned ancestral home, Lynn Hall. Laurel is drawn to Corbet's beauty, Rois to the mystery of his past. But the past holds more than one mystery, and as Rois fights her way into the wood around Lynn Hall, seeking answers for herself, Laurel, and Corbet, she risks losing everything, for all of them, forever. <p> Traces of Christina Rossetti's <em>Goblin Market</em>, of Tam Lin, and of a dozen other legends and tales color Rois's story. Patricia McKillip's consummate mastery of language means that every word counts in a complex, sweetly painful story of human love and timeless, indifferent power.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book will appeal to only certain audiences, and I think I'm right on the borderline between them.  It certainly isn't the sort of book I ordinarily read, but I liked it.  At times I found the language poetic, lyrical, and simple but compelling.  The story is dreamlike and the characters are fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20355801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Winter Rose</em> begins as the seemingly simple story of Rois and Laurel Melior and their understandable fascination with young Corbet Lynn, returned to rebuild his abandoned ancestral home, Lynn Hall. Laurel is drawn to Corbet's beauty, Rois to the mystery of his past. But the past holds more than one mystery, and as Rois fights her way into the wood around Lynn Hall, seeking answers for herself, Laurel, and Corbet, she risks losing everything, for all of them, forever. <p> Traces of Christina Rossetti's <em>Goblin Market</em>, of Tam Lin, and of a dozen other legends and tales color Rois's story. Patricia McKillip's consummate mastery of language means that every word counts in a complex, sweetly painful story of human love and timeless, indifferent power.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book was rather like having a weird and confusing dream. I'm pretty sure this author would be rather adept at transcribing dreams, because her writing style is so flowy and vague while remaining somehow vivid. But kind of boring. And sometimes I hate all of her characters. I'm not certa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10163627">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Winter Rose</em> begins as the seemingly simple story of Rois and Laurel Melior and their understandable fascination with young Corbet Lynn, returned to rebuild his abandoned ancestral home, Lynn Hall. Laurel is drawn to Corbet's beauty, Rois to the mystery of his past. But the past holds more than one mystery, and as Rois fights her way into the wood around Lynn Hall, seeking answers for herself, Laurel, and Corbet, she risks losing everything, for all of them, forever. <p> Traces of Christina Rossetti's <em>Goblin Market</em>, of Tam Lin, and of a dozen other legends and tales color Rois's story. Patricia McKillip's consummate mastery of language means that every word counts in a complex, sweetly painful story of human love and timeless, indifferent power.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is well-written and includes aspects of magic, faerie, family bond, and a mysterious past that the characters and readers are both trying to piece together. I remember there was a bit of a romance side to it, which is not my cup of tea when reading but may strike others' interest. I would ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41101797">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>Winter Rose</em> begins as the seemingly simple story of Rois and Laurel Melior and their understandable fascination with young Corbet Lynn, returned to rebuild his abandoned ancestral home, Lynn Hall. Laurel is drawn to Corbet's beauty, Rois to the mystery of his past. But the past holds more than one mystery, and as Rois fights her way into the wood around Lynn Hall, seeking answers for herself, Laurel, and Corbet, she risks losing everything, for all of them, forever. <p> Traces of Christina Rossetti's <em>Goblin Market</em>, of Tam Lin, and of a dozen other legends and tales color Rois's story. Patricia McKillip's consummate mastery of language means that every word counts in a complex, sweetly painful story of human love and timeless, indifferent power.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is such a beautiful book...the language flows and carries you along. I felt like I was hearing a story told by the fire on a cold winters night. A perfect read in the close of the year. I found myself reading some passages over again just because the writing was so perfect. I enjoyed this quiet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79771014">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful fantasy with real, three dimensional characters including all the strengths and flaws that being human entails. Some pieces of the Tam Lin myth run throughout but not a strict rewrite of the story. McKillip is an exceptionally good writer.  You will not want to rush through the book even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53699607">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book so much I did something I hadn't done in a long time: picked it up, got my books, and walked to class while reading. To be more precise, I walked through the 10am rush on the green. I do wish the end was more decisive, but it does fit the wistful tone of the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favourites by her.  It's very flowery and dreamy in tone, even more so than many of her books.  Some people don't like that, and I can understand why, but I get very drawn into it.  It's like a dream you don't want to wake up from.]]></body>
    
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