Shadow Magic -- Patricia C. Wrede
I last (and first) read Shadow Magic oh, about 20 years ago, and it was one of the books that made me a Wrede fan.
I've been going back and reading some books I don't remember so well, and read Daughter of Witches, and then this. Daughter? Isn't bad, but isn't all that great, either.
But this? Oh, god yes. Genre fantasy at its finest, and in one book, not three-or-more (she has other novels in Lyra, of course, But they're telling different stories, about different characters).
Yum.
I've been going back and reading some books I don't remember so well, and read Daughter of Witches, and then this. Daughter? Isn't bad, but isn't all that great, either.
But this? Oh, god yes. Genre fantasy at its finest, and in one book, not three-or-more (she has other novels in Lyra, of course, But they're telling different stories, about different characters).
Yum.
Pat Wrede novels
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Re: Pat Wrede novels
I loved The Harp of Imach Thyssel. And remember it with the vague fondness I remember many books of ~20 years ago that I never reread. It's in the queue as well.
(hmm. I'd think the book that -really- put her on the map was Sorcery and Cecelia, but that was much later, of course).
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"The Seven Towers" has some of the same feel, but isn't putatively set in the same universe.
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