Pros: breathtaking fairy-tale feel; wonderful characters; a certain magical elegance of style Cons: hard to keep track of incidental characters; I wanted it to go on forever!
The more I read of Patricia McKillip's books, the more I fall in love with her stories, her characters, and her way with language.
Winter Rose
Rois and her sister Laurel live on their father's farm. Laurel is to marry...
Pros: amazing imagery and lyrical writing style Cons: some will consider it a slow and boring read
Things happen in the dead of winter that change some people. They can grow as cold and dark inside as the night air. Sometimes they can’t come back from that coldness. . . it’s as though a force is pulling them away, robbing them of their...
Pros: good idea... Cons: badly thought out; horrid ending
Patricia A. McKillip—-an award-winning fantasy author in Roxbury, New York—-wrote Winter Rose. This book is set in a small, rural, fictional village that was never named. The main character is a young girl named Rois [pronounced ‘rose,’ I take it because...
Roaming wild and barefoot in the woods that border Lynn Hall, Rois Melior meets Corbet Lynn, who has returned to rebuild the estate of his murdered gr...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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