Damaris C. (Erinyes) reviewed on 5/24/2008 + 279 more book reviews

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I have only recently started reading Robin McKinley's work but I am glad I found them. I know that they are marked for young adults or teenagers, but that should not stop anyone from enjoying the way this woman writes.

When you open one of these books by three pages into reading the characters and places are staring back at you. I have never read an author I found so easy to get into the prose and see the story go across my eyes.

The plot is Harry a girl who is restless and with no real future ahead of her. Just trying to make it through one day to the next gets swept up by way of extra-sensory sight into this huge adventure. She learns who she is and what she can really do by being thrown into a strange and foreign culture. I cared very much for what happened to this girl as she grew straight and strong. I felt sort of like a teenager myself as I was reading it. Remembering what it was like getting to know my own self and my own likes.

Take this book for what it is and it won't let you down.

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