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Mereda Hart Farynyk

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Mereda Hart Farynyk has always been captivated by fairy tales and far off places. From the earliest age, she would wander the forest, looking at the light filtering through the branches, and dream up endless fantasies of fairies and princes and great evils being overcome. She would drink up the study of ancient civilizations and marvel at how mysterious and foreign they were. Growing up in theatre and dance, she immersed herself in countless lives and emotions and perspectives, and what started out as a simple fascination with the magic and mystery of other worlds soon became a deep love of how those other worlds could help us to better understand the richest truths of this one.

Spanning a variety of genres, her books explore questions of s
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HYACINTH: the average girl HYACINTH: the new recruit HYACINTH: the coming dawn
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Firedark The Children of Maglan and ... Vassal The Lands beyond the World A Fire in the Darkness
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The Perilous Gard
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Mereda Hart Farynyk Mereda Hart Farynyk said: " Wow! How have I never heard of this book before?!

Right from the start, the storytelling clicked with me as being very much of my style and taste--which only made me anxious as I awaited the oh-so-likely disappointment to follow.* At first, I thought
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Mereda Hart Farynyk is 50% done with The Perilous Gard: Man, I just love this book.
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Reading this book right now was a rather surreal experience, I must admit.

Despite my general tendency to reread my books quite often, I haven't revisited the second or third books of this trilogy for 7 years (7.5 years for this installment!). In a w
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"I’m so glad I stayed up to finish this! That was WILD. This is going to be a very fun series "
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Read aloud to my eldest! I always love McGraw's writing; reading this book just really made me want to read Mara, Daughter of the Nile 🤪😍😭 ...more
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“There was a softness to the beauty of it—a gentleness that soothed and lulled and made her feel wrapped in a blanket of calm. But there was a grandeur there also—magnificent and rushing with a power that threatened to conquer with its might.”
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“He shook his head. “We’re always in danger, Miss Blillick. We’ve chosen it—to live our lives in constant decision that the things we stand for are worth it. Who we are is dangerous.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, HYACINTH: the average girl

“I felt as though I had been offered a whole new world, and at the center of it was, and always must be, him.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“There was something about Gabrel’s smile… something different, something fascinating. It was not mere sunshine like Tana’s sweet smile, nor was it mead like Drex’s—honeyed but also biting. There was something about it that always made Kalla think of a sun-shower—pure and full of hope but also sad, just like the suns shining through the rain. And Kalla had always loved the rain.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, Firedark

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
Lloyd Alexander

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo

“Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.”
Robin McKinley, Chalice

“It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him—natural and reassuring—like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain




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