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    <body><![CDATA[I fell in love with Patricia McKillip's writing many years ago when, as a teenager, I discovered her Riddle-Master trilogy in the library. From there, I pretty much read all her books as they came out. McKillip's writing is beautiful; it's lyrical, poetical, full of fantastic imagery and amazing ide...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54414077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[      A re-telling of an old Russian folktale wherein a mighty kingdom—Serre—is ruled by a fierce warrior king who does not remember where the magic of the land comes from. His son recently lost his wife and son and wishes to die, but the king will have him wed to a daughter of a nearby, smaller...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43983486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the way Patricia McKillip can create a fairytale world in her books. The images and the stories all unfold in such as way that you're drawn into an ethereal world where ogres and talking animals and wicked witches and firebirds all live together with wizards and kings and scribes.<br/><br/>Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54860179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thank you, Stephanie, for turning me on to Patricia McKillip. If there were such a thing as &quot;cozy fantasy,&quot; this would be it. I love her writing and her ability to make a short fairy tale into a rich story full of characters you can relate to, care about, and will remember. On to the next ...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this sitting on my shelf for years, but sometimes it takes me awhile to get into McKillip books. I love them, though, because they seem so dreamy. I'm not sure what it is, it's not like her characters have no emotion or that they're two dimensional. Maybe they're just two dimensional in tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52174021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Patricia A. Mckillip is my new-found favorite author. Written in beautiful prose, concealed meanings and descriptions in her writing create a vivid landscape of wizards and dragons, monsters and stubborn princesses, deceit and hard-won love. With a mysterious phoenix stealing away men's hearts and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25598489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book only got three of the four stars McKillip's books get mainly because I didn't feel that the storyline ever really gelled to the point that I cared about the characters as much as I did in her other books. <br/><br/>This one borrows much from Russian fairy tales (the Firebird, the witch w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42718412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. I get tired of meaningless quests and epic tales of kingdoms and fortunes. This book seemed to me more like a fable. There was a message in it. It'll stay with me for a while. <br/><br/>And it has given me a new tag line...<br/><br/>&quot;Some days you fight yourself and other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64930733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the book enough to finish it in the hopes that it would catch me but sadly it did not. Perhaps I held too high of standards considering <em>The Forgotten Beasts of Eld</em> was one of my absolute favorite books. I'll have to check out a few more of her books and see if I am further disappointed.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61840559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently reading a volume of Russian fairytales in our library, and I remembered how this book dramatically fleshing out the visceral quality of those tales from that cold, passionate land.<br/><br/>And I kind of need an escape.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Missing hearts and wicked forest witches. Rich fantasy. I think McKillip's writing here is as beautiful as the Kinuko Y. Craft cover art.<br/>If you like this you might also like Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another recommendation for She of the Chocolate Locks.  McKillip always writes beatifully, but some of her stories stick with me, and some don't.  This one did.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[She is kindof off beat and a little strange but I like that. And she uses my favorite subject matter for insperation. The Alphabet of Thorns is good also.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like everything I've ever read from Patricia for her poetry in language.  In this one I particularly liked the scribe Euan.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am just in love with Patricia McKillip's use of language.  I think I liked the language better than the storyline in this book.  The ending was relatively unsatisfying.  Throughout the book, I kept thinking it was wrapping up and then...it wouldn't.  I also felt like I was tricked into thinking th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38253032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A retelling of the Firebird.  Beautiful and lyrical, as all of her books.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Predictable, but beautifully written. McKillip's books read like poetry.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See my reviews at the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Book Nook at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/booknook.">www.lvrj.com/blogs/booknook.</a> <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a fairy tale for adults.  Perhaps it's because I just finished reading <em>Spindle's end</em>, but I was frankly a little bored with the plot line.  The story shifted between three main characters, the prince (who was a bit blase), the princess (who really didn't do much), and the scribe to a wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18397143">more...</a>]]></body>
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