Joy Chant
Författare till Röd måne och svarta berg : huset Kendreths fall
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The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 301 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Rutter, Eileen Joyce
- Födelsedag
- 1945-01-13
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
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- 5
- Även av
- 4
- Medlemmar
- 1,393
- Popularitet
- #18,451
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 18
- ISBN
- 31
- Språk
- 2
- Favoritmärkt
- 2
There is some violence and a token questioning of the subservient role of women, though this is 'answered' by the fact that the plains women drive the wagons and so are 'helpless' though I don't see why this would prevent them from at least fighting in self defence. Even among the town and city dwellers, where women of the hereditary star magic wielders appear to enjoy more equality, there is the idea that women must marry for fulfilment, even though the Princess In'serinna loses her powers by marrying an outsider, and condemns her linked star to blowing up!
The best aspects are the vivid description of a battle between eagles representing the good and bad powers, and the touching end section where the oldest boy, Oliver, has to face his true position, but quite a bit of the story is fairly humdrum. There are a lot of different cultures with difficult to pronounce or too similar names and it is easy to lose track. This is first in a trilogy, and was not interesting enough for me to want to track down the other volumes which are probably long out of print.… (mer)