What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Fantasy book from the 70s/80s(?) - Heroine had spiders in her hair … SPOILERS ahead. [s]
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Additional details - I have a hazy memory that the heroine could gather and use moonlight in some way (maybe one time she made an invisibility cloak? Or something like that?)
Thank you for the suggestion, but that does not look like the one!
Its been almost a year since I posted this, bumping :-)
Maybe take a look at Dawn Song by Sharon Green my (admittedly somewhat vague) recollections of it fit kinda closely to what you're describing.Oddly the GR listing for it states it was published in 2011 but that's wayyyy after I read it, so somethings a bit fishy with it.
Aerulan wrote: "Maybe take a look at Dawn Song by Sharon Green my (admittedly somewhat vague) recollections of it fit kinda closely to what you're describing."Oh my goodness, that is it! You are wonderful and amazing, and if you are ever in Portland, Oregon I totally will buy you dinner. Thank you so much!!
It is indeed Dawn Song by Sharon Green!
Sarah E wrote: "Oh my goodness, that is it! You are wonderful and amazing, and if you are ever in Portland, Oregon I totally will buy you dinner. Thank you so much!! ..."Yay, and you're very welcome! I'm glad I could help.
What's the Name of That Book???
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I am trying to find a fantasy book I read 28 or so years or so ago - so, around late 80s, but may have been published in the 70s or 80s. From what I remember (although I was around 10 or 12, so take all of this with a grain of salt...), it was a fantasy set in another world, probably average story length but maybe novella (I remember it as its own volume, not as part of a collection, but I could be wrong about that and it is a short story), paperback (?) – not a picture book or anything, but not sure if it was a YA or adult fiction.
The heroine was the daughter of the moon (or the moon family, or the night family, something like that) and perhaps her parents were doing some sort of arranged marriage/relationship with the son of the sun. They may have had powers/skills that worked better in the night or day, respectively. I recall that they may not have particularity wanted to get married, but ended up traveling together for some reason or the other. Then, hijinks of some sort that I can’t recall. She may have ended up tied up/locked in the back room of an inn (or the like) at one point, and I think she had to wait for the night time to free herself (with the help of the spiders). The main thing that sticks with me was that she had these spider familiars or companions that lived in her hair and would come out and help her. The book made it seem not that creepy, somehow... they were definitely friendly and helpful to her.
You would think the spiders bit would make it easy to find, but no such luck.
I looked at Night’s Daughter by Marion Zimmer Bradley, but that was not it.