41. Book Review: Patricia McKillip's 'Od Magic' Maybe patricia A. mckillip hasn’t fallen nearly as far, but it’s for sure, nothing I’ve read since her original fantasy classic, The RiddleMaster of Hed http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue189/od_magic_rev.html

Home Page Issue Index All Issues Bewildering ... Bewildering Press Patricia A. McKillip, Od Magic reviewed by Danielle L. Parker Od Magic Author : Patricia A. McKillip Publisher : Ace, 2005 Hardcover Length : 315 pages ISBN my The Riddle-Master of Hed , has fulfilled its bright promise. The prose styling that has hardened into an instantly recognizable caricature of itself in her later books felt natural in her great trilogy. There was the obsession the protagonist Morgon feels for the mysterious, elusive, fascinating Deth; there was betrayal and redemption and sacrifice and ambiguity in a worthy climax to an involving journey. It was a book I bought for my permanent library shelf. What do we have in Od Magic bleed again? Can we get some conviction going here? Do bad people simply need an over-sized mama figure to rap them on the knuckles and explain the folly of their misguided, but ways, in order to be good again the rest of their life? what against shoot it. The hit-me-in-the-face moral, and the goodness-we-were-just-misguided, now-we-know-better ending is a letdown. McKillip still writes prose as if it were poetry, of course, though that talent has almost become too obtrusive, to my mind. We also have a potentially intriguing character in a young woman who operates, like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz , half a huckster and half a magician. But this story fails of its promise, too.

42. Digital Changeling: Harrowing the Dragon by patricia A. mckillip. When I wake from one of mckillip s books it is always like rising in the afternoon, muggy with the weight of http://www.digitalchangeling.com/blog/2006/05/harrowing-dragon-by-patricia-mckil

Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=16150493"); var BL_backlinkURL = "http://www.blogger.com/dyn-js/backlink_count.js";var BL_blogId = "16150493"; Digital Changeling Digital Changeling Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip Programming Gaming Art Sewing ... Friends' Things Archives January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 ... January 2008 Previous Posts RSS Feeding Cinder and Sparky Zomquistadors for Everybody! I Need a Photo Album ... Reading for V-day May 14, 2006 Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip When I wake from one of McKillip's books it is always like rising in the afternoon, muggy with the weight of dreams that latched on to me while I slept. For a while I'm not quite sure who I am or what parts of my life are really real. I look around and think, "wait, how did I end up here?" To say that I enjoyed McKillip's most recent book of short stories would be likening the winds of a gale to the merest breeze. Every new story that she releases grips me and it seems that she is growing more skilled the more years that she lives. Harrowing the Dragon is the introduction to her work that I wish I had many years ago when I picked up that first book of hers. It captures tiny bites of the dark and vivid worlds that I have seen her create before, but there is greater variety here; a little bit of all the faces that she shows to us in other works.

43. A Writer And Her Blog: McKillip, Patricia. The Changeling Sea. (Novella) mckillip, patricia. The Changeling Sea. (Novella). Okay, I m listing this sucker as a novella. Yes, it s technically longer than a novella (which, I m told, http://hj7books.blogspot.com/2006/12/mckillip-patricia-changeling-sea.html

a writer and her blog Thoughts on writing; reviews of myriad books and stories and poems; and the occasional piece of original work from me. :) About Me I'm a creative-writing, vegetarian, feminist lesbian. I'm a partnered (6+ yrs), college grad (English/Feminist Studies/Philosophy) cat-"owner," and i don't shave a damn thing (except occasionally my head). View my complete profile Blog Archive January Kipling, Rudyard. How the Elephant Got His Trunk.... December Holst, Spencer. The Zebra Storyteller. (Short Stor... ... November Blogs I Frequent Word Strumpet Friday, December 15, 2006 McKillip, Patricia. The Changeling Sea. (Novella) Okay, I'm listing this sucker as a novella. Yes, it's technically longer than a novella (which, I'm told, should fall between fifty and 100 pages, or 20,000 and 40,000 words), weighing in at a whopping 153 pages, but I just feel that it's a novella. It doesn't have the depth of development I associate with a novel not, in my humble opinion, because McKillip can't do depth, but because this is a novella , and one written for a pretty young readership, at that. This isn't intended as an insult to the story I enjoyed it quite a lot, as I always enjoy McKillip's work. I'm just saying that we weren't really with the characters for long enough to know them as we would if the story went on longer.

44. Eve's Alexandria: "Riddles Are Often Dangerous, But An Unanswered Riddle May Be patricia mckillip s trilogy, The Riddlemaster s Game (19769), is widely seen as one of the classics of the fantasy genre. The author admits in her preface http://evesalexandria.typepad.com/eves_alexandria/2006/08/riddles_are_oft.html

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45. Susan Hated Literature » Patricia A. McKillip Tags 7 Stars, 813.54, faerie, family curse, first person narrator, patricia A. mckillip, retelling fairy tales, sff, stylish, Winter Rose http://www.susanhatedliterature.net/tag/patricia-a-mckillip/

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46. Solstice Wood By Patricia A. McKillip - Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Book Solstice Wood by patricia A. mckillip Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Book Reviews. http://books.monstersandcritics.com/science_fiction_fantasy/reviews/article_1079

Monsters and Critics Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Book Arts Books ... Talkback var addthis_pub = 'jwray'; Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Book Reviews Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip By Sandy Amazeen Jan 25, 2006, 3:37 GMT Well known fantasy author McKillip takes a slightly different direction in her newest book by setting the story in present day San Francisco and upstate New York. Sylvia Lynn left home and the tantalizing nearby woods as soon as she was able, eventually becoming the owner of a successful San Francisco bookstore. Her life is more or less cruising along until the death of her grandfather drags her back to Lynn Hall where she must confront the past while coming to terms with who and what she is. Sylvia’s Gram is a formidable old woman trying to cope with the loss of her husband, holding the ramshackle old Lynn Hall together and attempting to find a way to convince her wayward granddaughter to take up her rightful place in the community. She introduces Sylvia to members of the local Fiber Guild where things are not as they first appear. It’s much more then a mere sewing circle as each Guild member binds shut hidden passages between the seen and unseen world with every stitch they make. Witches most people would call them although the women see themselves more as guardians keeping the fae and woodland folk from doing harm among the mortals. The longer Sylvia stays, the more she is confronted with the secrets of the wood and worse, sooner or later someone is going to figure out her deepest secret which could well cost her everything she holds dear. Sylvia soon discovers she isn’t the only one with deep, dark secrets and unless she can unravel the riddle of the woods some mortals may find themselves permanently trapped within the fae realm. It becomes a race against time as a greedy businessman seeks to buy out Lynn Hall and the woods it protects, hoping to cash in on by turning it all into a theme park.

47. Alphabet Of Thorn By McKillip, Patricia A. CyberRead carries over 40000 of your favorite books from both major and independent publishers for your PDA and PC. Buy eBooks (ebooks) in popular formats. http://www.cyberread.com/info/20676/penguin_group/mckillip_patricia_a/alphabet_o

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48. Book Review: Winter Rose By Patricia A. McKillip When I first read Winter Rose by patricia A. mckillip I was in high school; in love for the first time and yet to have my heart broken. I loved this book, http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/11/04/070203.php

BC Home Features Fresh Comments RSS ... Become a BC Writer Blogcritics is an online magazine, a community of writers and readers from around the globe. Publisher: Eric Olsen REVIEW Book Review: Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip Written by Katie McNeill Published November 04, 2006 See also: "Something Beautiful and Strong": Interview with Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Winner of Orwell Prize for Political Writing Book Review: Consolation by Michael Redhill ... How William Styron Helped Save Me From Depression When I first read Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip I was in high school; in love for the first time and yet to have my heart broken. I loved this book, it spoke to me on so many levels. I must have read it 60 times and even now, rereading it again, it is still the wonderful book that I loved as a teenager. On the edge of the wood, being swallowed and taken back into the land, stands Lynn Hall. It has stood empty for years until Corbet Lynn appears one day. He is the son of the man who left it all to the wood, back to this village to start his own life. Rois sees right away that Corbet is not all that he claims to be. Rois sees the wood. Not the just the trees but the magic in them. She realizes that Corbet is being held by the Queen of the Wood, a captive just like his father was, and she vows to save him even though he has fallen in love with her sister. Laurel has even broken her engagement with a man from the village in anticipation of a declaration from Corbet.

49. Fantasy Literature, Patricia Mckillip, Robin Hobb, Tolkien, Crispin Sartwell By a substantial margin, patricia mckillip is the best living writer of fantasy, and she is one of the best living writers in the English language. http://www.crispinsartwell.com/fant.htm

creators column: tolkien and literature creators column: lord of the rings and adaptation creators column: potter, tolkien, fantasy Raymond Feist: Riftwar Saga Magician: Apprentice Magician: Master Silverthorn A Darkness at Sethanon ,br> David Farland: The Runelords The Sum of All Men Brotherhood of the Wolf Wizardborn The Lair of Bones Well now: this quartet pulled me along from beginning to end, sometimes short-circuiting my attempts to read the things I should. It rests on an extremely absorbing premise: that through the use of "forcibles" (little branding-irons made of precious blood-metal) people can give "endowments" to one another: they can bequeath their brawn, or their grace, or their will, or their wit, or their sight, to another person. Of course they lose that quality in themselves by doing so, and become "dedicates" whom the runelord who receives the endowment must protect; if the dedicate is killed, the runelord loses the endowment. If the runelord is killed, the endowment reverts to the dedicate. In this situation, certain people can amass thousands of endowments, and become unbelievably powerful, like the nasty Raj Ahten. Farland uses this idea profoundly, working it out with amazing depth and consistency across economy, ethics, politics, etc etc. As if that's not enough, here's another concept. Runelords are followed around by their "days," scribes who write their lives, to be published after their deaths. Days work in pairs, having exchanged endowments of wit, so that back at headquarters they see all and know all. The days are sworn not to interfere in the affairs of normal people, but obviously they have the most amazing intelligence network of all. If only we could tap into it as we try to save the world from evil...And of course the plot is epic, and also it's very well-made and coherent.

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51. Bookwormom: Solstice Wood, Patricia McKillip Solstice Wood, patricia mckillip. This is the first book set in contemporary time Ms. mckillip has written in an age. Don t ask me what the most recent http://bookwormom.blogspot.com/2006/04/solstice-wood-patricia-mckillip.html

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." Henry Ward Beecher Bookwormom Monday, April 03, 2006 Solstice Wood, Patricia McKillip This is the first book set in contemporary time Ms. McKillip has written in an age. Don't ask me what the most recent previous contemporary-time title is because I don't know. According to the Penguin website Ms. McKillip has two stories in separate anthologies coming this week. One book is Flights, Extreme Visions of Fantasy and the other is Firebirds Rising Solstice Wood Sylvia Lynn, a bookstore owner in the Pacific Northwest, must return to her childhood home upon the death of her grandfather. Events unfold from there. I won't say more except that things are not all what they seem to be. Books Book Review Fantasy Review Posted by Bookwormom at 6:11 PM comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) counter_id=75615; display_type="daily_country_visitors"; skin=null; mapside=null; autoresize=null; Blog Information Profile for amandas Subscribe in a reader Blog Archive January Wicked; Shannon Drake

52. Review: Patricia McKillip's Ombria In Shadow, Reviewed By Rob Gates This nexus point of shadow and light tragedy and transcendence is the centerpiece of patricia mckillip s brilliant new fantasy novel, Ombria in Shadow http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020610/ombria_in_shadow.shtml

CONTENTS Art Gallery Articles Columns ... Forum Loss and Transcendence, Patricia McKillip's Ombria In Shadow Reviewed by Rob Gates 10 June 2002 T ragedy has always been with us, though it is something closer to our hearts in the past year. Whether a tragedy is shared or personal in nature, it forces us to deal with grief and to face the difficult task of moving forward with our lives. Thus tragedy becomes not just a terrible event but a struggle, in which one can find moments of human transcendence. This nexus point of shadow and light tragedy and transcendence is the centerpiece of Patricia McKillip's brilliant new fantasy novel, Ombria in Shadow In Ombria in Shadow McKillip interweaves the finer aspects of the fairy tale and the Gothic to evoke a sense of catharsis. Fairy tale pacing and characters are balanced carefully against the darker aspects of the Gothic setting to produce wonder, fear, and in the end renewed hope that the world not only can, but will, be a better place tomorrow. McKillip's rich mix of deft characterization, adept world building, and artistic prose forms a magnificent tapestry. Ombria is a city in decline ruled by the House of Greve and its current Prince, Royce Greve. Once a great and powerful trading center, its fortunes have fallen, and along with them, the hopes of its people. Around every corner is an abandoned inn, storefront or home; in every building is a sign of decay and impending collapse. Pirates have driven the port almost out of business. Its people are sinking into despondency. And the members of the House of Greve and the other nobles of the city are ill-prepared for the death of Royce. The heir, Kyel, is a child, and the woman who will be his Regent is an unnaturally old and power hungry woman of the House of Greve, Domina Pearl.

53. Review: The Riddle-Master Of Hed By Patricia A. McKillip mckillip captures in Hed a similar feel as the rural life of the Shire, and in Morgon s dislike of the adventures thrust upon him, she presents it as a http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-441-00596-9a.html

The Moon and the Sun Russ Allbery Reviews Heir of Sea and Fire The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip Series: Riddle-Master #1 Publisher: Ace Printing: March 1999 ISBN: Format: Trade paperback Pages: This is the first book of a closely-connected trilogy; if you plan to read it, you may want to have the next book on hand. I read The Riddle-Master of Hed as part of the Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy omnibus, which is its most common form these days and which the publication information is for. Morgon is the land-ruler of Hed, a non-descript, undramatic, peaceful, and very agrarian island off the coast of a land with a vivid and mixed magical history. Morgon himself has had a few un-Hed-like adventures, having been educated as a Riddle-Master in the city of Caithnard, but since the death of his parents in a shipwreck he's settled down to oversee the farming and land of Hed. However, before doing so, he went on one last adventure, beat a ghost in a riddle game, and won a crown and the hand of a king's daughter in marriage. And now he has to decide what to do about it. This book has the dubious non-distinction of being compared with Tolkien and the distinction of having that comparison feel apt in some less usual ways. McKillip captures in Hed a similar feel as the rural life of the Shire, and in Morgon's dislike of the adventures thrust upon him, she presents it as a stronger valid choice. So many fantasies hurry their young protagonists away from their humble roots, showing that magic is clearly the superior choice. Morgon doesn't follow that attitude. Using the land-rule, the basic structure of McKillip's world that gives the rightful ruler of a country a deep understanding of that country's needs and functioning, McKillip shows a more painful sundering from a life that the hero liked, for a journey through magic that's perilous, frustrating, and in many ways worse.

54. Sun And Shield: Christian Themes In Patricia A. McKillip's Riddle-Master Trilogy 1) I am grateful to patricia A. mckillip, who has written a body of work that I have enjoyed. Sometimes I ve had trouble understanding what was going on, http://sunandshield.blogspot.com/2007/04/christian-themes-in-patricia-mckillips.

skip to main skip to sidebar Sun and Shield Musings on science, the Bible, and fantastic literature (and sometimes basketball and other stuff). This blog is probably too idiosyncratic to categorize. The title is from Psalm 84:11. My purpose is to consider things that interest me. I hope some of them interest other people, occasionally. I use the Wikipedia in my posts. It's usually a pretty good reference. I use the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible. If cited appropriately, I may use it freely on this blog. I am grateful. Tuesday, April 03, 2007 Christian themes in Patricia A. McKillip's Riddle-Master Trilogy I should begin with two acknowledgments: 1) I am grateful to Patricia A. McKillip, who has written a body of work that I have enjoyed. Sometimes I've had trouble understanding what was going on, which was probably my fault, but I've never had trouble understanding that I'm in a world of fantastic fiction, where things don't work quite as they do here in the real world. 2) I'm grateful to Elliot, of the Claw of the Conciliator blog, for posting an annotated list of important authors of fantastic literature that show evidence of a Christian world-view in their work. I commented on this, and suggested, based especially on her use of the theme of

55. The House On Parchment Street By Charles Robinson (Illustrator by Charles Robinson (Illustrator), patricia A mckillip The House on Parchment Street By mckillip, patricia a.; Robinson, Charles http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/qwork/3001118/used/The House on Parchment

You'll find it at Alibris! Log in here. Over 60 million secondhand, new, and out-of-print books! YOUR CART items ACCOUNT WISHLIST HELP search all sellers in Books Movies DVD VHS Music - Pop/Jazz Pop/Jazz CD Pop/Jazz Vinyl Music - Classical Classical CD Classical Vinyl by title / ISBN by song title by author by composer by subject your shopping cart order status wish list order history ... help Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win FREE books. your e-mail address see this month's winners NEW BOOKS OF NOTE UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOKS BARGAIN BOOKS ... RARE BOOKS available COPIES The House on Parchment Street by Charles Robinson (Illustrator), Patricia A McKillip About this title: While staying with her cousin in England, a young girl helps him find a way of helping the troubled ghosts inhabiting the cellar of the house. Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below. Your search: Books The House on Parchment Street (7 available copies) Narrow your results by: Signed First edition Page of 1 sort by Seller Rating Price - Low Price - High Condition Title Author Pub Date The House on Parchment Street by Patricia A. McKillip

56. My Bookstore: Winter Rose By Patricia A. McKillip Winter Rose by patricia A. mckillip. Rois Melior has always wandered freely through the wood by her house. One day she meets Corbet Lynn. http://ruthiegirl.blogspot.com/2007/02/winter-rose-by-patricia-mckillip.html

skip to main skip to sidebar My Bookstore Books for bookworms, happenings for wonderers, facts for everyone, and sometimes stories by me ...I just think of these things, and then I don't feel so bad! Barnes and Noble (and books in general) birthday parties friends fun words (like effervescent and uber) learning languages RUF Scrabble...and other word games skiing sleep-overs swimming tea traveling (not the car part, so much!) weddings writing fantasy stories Saturday, February 10, 2007 Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip Rois Melior has always wandered freely through the wood by her house. One day she meets Corbet Lynn. Soon rumors begin to fly about him. His father murdered his grandfather, and his grandfather's last words were supposedly a curse. Rois is curious, and begins looking for clues. She findes herself caught in a whirlwind of curses, the past, and the cruel winter. Good. It's scary in a nice, shivery way. It's a little confusing because there's a lot of stuff going on, but you'll figure it out. Posted by OneoftheServens at 2:38 PM comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Blog Archive January December triple play The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond by G.K. Chesterton

57. Patricia Mckillip's Winter Rose - Www.ezboard.com I would love to follow a chat on this book! aka Greensleeves Registered User (8/11/05 117 pm), Re patricia mckillip s winter rose http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/boardarchives/2005/aug2005/patriciamckillip.h

This is an archived string from the SurLaLune Fairy Tales Discussion Board. Back to August 2005 Archives Table of Contents Return to Board Archives Main Page Visit the Current Discussions on EZBoard ... Visit the SurLaLune Fairy Tales Main Page Author Comment deathcookie Registered User (8/9/05 8:10 pm) patricia mckillip's winter rose I just finished this book, and thought it was beautifully written and captivating, but I have trouble really understanding what happened. Was it based on Tam Lin? I hate to sound ignorant, but this one really threw me. Has anyone here read it and understood what was going on? I'd really appreciate hearing other viewpoints about it. Thanks, Callie Registered User (8/10/05 2:06 pm) Re: patricia mckillip's winter rose I got this book from the library a few years back. I was so impressed with the beauty of the langage I bought it. I never got the Tam Lin connection personally but then I seldom delve beneath the surface. I would love to follow a chat on this book! aka Greensleeves Registered User (8/11/05 1:17 pm) Re: patricia mckillip's winter rose I love this book. It's one of my favorites. I recently lent it to a woman in my critique group, and she also found it hard to follow, which surprised me... but I've read it so many times that I pretty much know it by heart.

58. Compare Prices And Read Reviews On Patricia A. McKillip - Forgotten Beasts Of El However, my fingers recently walked themselves over just a volume or two away to patricia mckillip, and thus I discovered another impressive fantasy author, http://www.epinions.com/content_167719177860

Join Epinions Help Sign In All Categories Books Computer Hardware Electronics Games Magazines Subscriptions Movies Music Musical Equipment Pets Software Related Deals Advanced Search Home Media Books "Patricia A. McKillip - Forgotten Beasts of Eld" Patricia A. McKillip - Forgotten Beasts of Eld Overall rating: Reviewed by 4 Epinions users Write a Review Compare Prices View Details Read Reviews ... Subscribe to reviews on this product Read Review of Patricia A. McKillip - Forgotten Beasts of Eld Review Summary About the Author Suspend disbelief for a while and forget yourself on Eld Mountain Jan 01 '05 Pros a deliciously refreshing, wide-eyed fantasy Cons the formal dialogue gets a little topheavy occasionally The Bottom Line Like Robin McKinley's later works - without the obligatory overabundance of description. Quite yummy overall. Full Review I often frequented the McK section of the library, in search of my favorite author Robin McKinley, until purchasing all her works made such trips unnecessary. However, my fingers recently walked themselves over just a volume or two away to Patricia McKillip, and thus I discovered another impressive fantasy author, although I definitely have come to prefer her earlier novels. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is the first McKillip book I read, and captured my fancy so quickly that I bought it within two weeks.

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60. Patricia McKillip: The Tower At Stony Wood by patricia mckillip. hardcover edition. Like most of mckillip s recent novels, her latest is highly rarefied, but unpredictable, high fantasy. http://www.epiphyte.net/SF/tower-at-stony-wood.html

Epiphyte Book Review up to review index The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia McKillip Like most of McKillip's recent novels, her latest is highly rarefied, but unpredictable, high fantasy. She assembles a number of fairy-tale traditions: the lady in a tower, the lone knight on quest, the mysterious old woman who knows way more than she should, the monster who preys upon travelers, and so on and runs them counter to the reader's expectations. The Tower at Stony Wood is beautifully written, but very disorienting, and not entirely successful. The story opens as the king of Yves receives his beautiful young bride from the neighboring land of Skye, a fey country known for dragons and magic. Nobody in Yves believes in that sort of thing anymore, so it comes as a considerable shock to knight Cyan Dag when he turns out to be the only member of the court who can see that the lovely new queen is actually a hideous sea monster. The impostor tells Cyan that the true queen is trapped in a tower in Skye, guarded by a dragon, and will die instantly if she looks upon the world outside. (Evil gloating makes for great exposition.) Cyan, who is steadfast, brave, and almost completely lacking in personality, can't even begin to convince the king or the other knights of this; so he rides off to Skye to rescue the true queen, somewhat hampered by having no idea of how to find the tower or how to free her. Fortunately for Cyan, one can't seem to turn around in Skye without knocking into a mysterious stone tower. Finding the right tower, however, proves to be a problem.

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