Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Luscious prose and descriptions, an irresistible plot (disfigured young woman, obviously bespelled, also amnesiac, escapes drudgery and ...) also treasure, a love interest . . and many wonderful ideas (the shang wind, a kind of storm during which you can see ghosts replaying scenes of high emotion; sildron a rare and precious metal which floats which the people use to sail boats in the skies--it has an opposite metal) and wonderful storytelling. Dart-Thornton has collected from far and wide the older stories, poems and tales of the British Isles. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this writer and this series. On to book 2! The prose isn't complicated but there are long long lists of what people are eating, wearing, seeing, doing, everything, in short . . . might be too much for some. Most (not all) are real words from the heights of the romantic period of the middle ages and earlier as are most of the stories. ****… (mer)

Cecilia Dart-Thornton's writing style takes some getting used to. She uses a surfeit of words where a handful would do and puts polysyllabic phrases in the mouth of her mentally handicapped protagonist. These stylistic tendencies are so aggravating, in fact, that I almost put the book down several times. But then, unexpectedly, the story began to shine through its clumsy writing, and the writing itself became a waterfall of rich sensory detail oddly suited to the world it describes. The story Dart-Thornton begins in The Ill-Made Mute makes use of a wealth of mythology and folklore, combining fey creatures with a quest and a romance for a compelling, if slightly disjointed, adventure.… (mer)

Mi è piaciuto molto. Fantasy molto particolare e non adatto a tutti perchè molto descrittivo.
Dicono sia noioso ma io non concordo, diciamo che le descrizioni sono minuziose ma non inutili e non noiose. Le creature delle fiabe inglesi e irlandesi sono fantastiche. Le tempeste di vento magico sono una cosa assolutamente originale come le stanze prive di protezione. Sono curiosa di vedere come si sviluppa. Consigliato agli amanti dei fantasy molto ricchi di idee ma un po' lenti nella narrazione.… (mer)