On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:12:13 -0500, Aaron Bergman
<abergman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>_Dragonhaven_, Robin McKinley
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>I loved, loved, loved _Sun****ne_. This book is, unfortunately, no
>_Sun****ne_. It's marketed as a YA book, and it's told in a
>not-entirely-believable first person adolescent male voice. I just never
>bought into it. The characterization, especially, didn't worked for me.
>A disappointment.
Agreed. Her worst since the Robin Hood one, and worse than that,
which is saying something.
It particularly clashed with the one I read afterwards, Angel Island
by her husband, Peter Dickinson, which I thought was great. Also YA,
I believe. With Dickinson I usually read, but don't connect with his
books, so while I can tell they're good, I don't love them. Perhaps
because of the contrast, perhaps the writing really was warmer, rather
than the cool distance he usually come across as writing, but it's the
first I can come close to loving.
_Angel Island_ is a sequel many many years later to _The Ropemaker_.
The author sort of hauls in high mathematics for magic, too which I
don't see very often, if at all.
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Elaine Thompson <Elaine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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