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| ISBN: | 0441019579 (ISBN13: 9780441019571) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2011), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2011), Endeavour Award Nominee (2011) |
Patricia A. McKillip
Hardcover | Pages: 329 pages Rating: 3.94 | 2323 Users | 300 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Bards of Bone Plain |
| Author | : | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 329 pages |
| Published | : | December 7th 2010 by Ace Hardcover (first published October 25th 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. High Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight.Rating Regarding Books The Bards of Bone Plain
Ratings: 3.94 From 2323 Users | 300 ReviewsEvaluate Regarding Books The Bards of Bone Plain
14 days to go...I seemed to take forever to finish this, but it was Christmas frenzy rather than lack of enjoyment. Mostly. This is typical McKillip in gorgeous prose, stunning magic, and unusually, a wonderful interweaving of past and present. (I also loved that the book's present was much more modern than her usual fantasy setting.) I loved the way the characters in the present were fascinated by the characters of the past, and how the stories of present and past came closer and closer andI've got a new favorite Patricia McKillip novel in *The Bards of Bone Plain* -- and maybe even a favorite new novel, period.The novel starts with a present-day story in the kingdom of Belden. Phelen Cle, a student at the bardic academy in Caerau, is casting about for a subject for his final paper. He settles on the overworked topic of the Bone Plain, thinking it will be easy. Phelan's father, Jonah, is a wealthy drunk who finances archaeological digs. One of his diggers happens to be Princess
Well, it's Patricia McKillip, so I have to give it 4 stars because basically she can do no wrong in my eyes since I read The Riddle Master of Hed some thirty years ago. Oddly though, this book felt a little like a re-run, as it contains much about the power of music, and mysterious harpers, and very old ruins. Her lyrical style is one that I eat up with a spoon, so no matter what, I loved each page for the beautifully-constructed sentences that it contained. Okay, I'll just open a random page
I read this book almost a year ago, and the plot made almost no impact on me. In a vaguely steam-punk fantasy kingdom bards can do...magic? Maybe? Except that the knack has been lost through the ages and now all that's left is myth, history, and archeology? There's a mystery to be solved and a conflict developing, but figuring that out through the clouds of narration is a bit of a task.The problem is that Mckillip is style over clarity and...heart, I guess. Her characters are all beautifully
So good!
Patricia McKillip generally writes dreamy, lyrical fairy-tale-like fantasies, and her books have always been a mixed bag for me. I adored The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, The Changeling Sea and Alphabet of Thorn. Despite several tries, I've never been able to make it through the entire Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy trilogy. I also DNF'd The Bell at Sealey Head but I'm determined to give it another shot sometime (since I own a copy of it). I tried twice and could not at all get into The
In Beldan's history is the story of a bard cursed to an endless life without music--but events in the modern day intimate a truth behind the legend. This takes its central premise of bardic tradition, myth, and music and language as magic, and runs with it as far as it can. The surprising industrialization of the modern setting is a fun counterpoint to the historical underpinnings; the tone is playful and charming, set against an arcane heart--McKillip has a particular knack for transporting,
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