Review: Riddle-Master of Hed

A long-time favorite, it had been at least 20 years since I’d traveled with Morgan from the farming island of Hed to see the High One in Erlenstar Mountain. This was one of those transformative books for me, a fantasy that made me think, made me want to look beyond the boundaries of what we can see and know.

It’s also a book that has a lot of what I would rather read C.S. Lewis refer to as that great “Northness” as Morgan spends a lot of time in the colder realms near the High One’s home, lea...