false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170993535m/81068.jpg 81068 5 World Fantasy Award-winning author McKillip (<I>Song for the Basilisk</I>) returns with another lyrical, richly detailed fantasy. Cyan Dag, knight of Gloinmere, is sworn to serve King Regis Aurum of Yves. Cyan's oath leads him headlong into dangerous magical territory, however, when Idra, Bard of Skye, reveals that the King's new bride, Lady Gwynne, is an impostor. The true Lady Gwynne is trapped in an enchanted stone tower in distant Skye, a magical mirror her only means of viewing the outside world. Bound by his oath to protect the King, Cyan rides west to free Lady Gwynne. In the meantime, Thayne Ysse, son of the king of Ysse, has never forgotten his father's defeat at the hands of King Regis Aurum. Now he seeks a tower guarded by a dragon, a tower filled with gold enough to raise a new army and defeat Yves once and for all. And in another ancient tower outside the coastal village of Stony Wood, Melanthos, the daughter of a land-bound selkie and a fisherman, obsessively embroiders pictures of a lonely woman trapped in a distant tower who may or may not be real. Although Cyan Dag took up his quest with one goal in mind, he soon realizes that the only route to saving Lady Gwynne lies tangled with the lives of Thayne and Melanthos, and in the mysterious motives of Idra and her woods-wise sister Sidera. Once again McKillip skillfully knits disparate threads into a rewardingly rich and satisfying story. <I>--Charlene Brusso</I> 2605620 book 2000 The Tower at Stony Wood total:380|5:88|4:155|3:114|2:16|1:7| 380 1441 517 18 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 13:23:03 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 13:35:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 23:22:18 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 23:11:51 -0700 2008
That said, I really wanted to love this book. There was s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 19:19:21 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 19:27:20 -0700 2008 Patricia A. McKillip books, the ones with the gorgeous Kinuko Craft covers, that don't have a summary on the back. This used to bother me because how was I going to know if I wanted to read it if I didn't know what it was about? But now, after reading Winter Rose and The Tower at Stony Wood...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 07:39:47 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 15:03:25 -0800 2009
This book was good, but I felt like it suffered from some of the same flaws as In the Forests of Serre. The characters never quite gelled, and some parts of the storyline were a bit incomprehensible. ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Mar 22 17:54:58 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 17:55:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 12 07:31:42 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 07:32:45 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun May 10 21:39:34 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 21:39:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 21 09:17:01 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 13:32:47 -0800 2008 2 0 true false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 18:50:45 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 05:48:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 06 09:25:45 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 09:25:46 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Aug 11 14:59:28 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 15:01:28 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Mar 29 14:09:47 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 14:10:55 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Mon Sep 15 17:47:43 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 17:48:27 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 16 11:25:44 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 11:29:28 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Mon Jul 30 22:24:22 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 22:24:42 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Jul 18 17:19:45 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 17:19:45 -0700 2007 http://oyceter.livejournal.com/164653.ht...
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