Victoria Goddard
Författare till The Hands of the Emperor
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Traveller's Joy 2 exemplar
Traveller's Joy (Greenwing & Dart) 2 exemplar
Inkebarrow 1 exemplar
Galatea that was Ino: A Short Story 1 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Goddard, Victoria Emma Clare
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- alive
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- female
- Land (för karta)
- Canada
- Bostadsorter
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Prince Edward Island, Canada - Utbildning
- Carleton University, Ottawa (B. Hum)
University of Toronto (M. A.)
University of Toronto (Ph.D., Medieval Studies)
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Books Read in 2023 (17)
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Books Read in 2021 (12)
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- Verk
- 41
- Även av
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 1,426
- Popularitet
- #18,045
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 161
- ISBN
- 69
- Favoritmärkt
- 7
This is pure magic. Everything sparkles and sings with it. The writing is dreamlike, woven out of myths and fairy tales. I found myself rereading paragraphs again and again. The rhythm of the prose was hypnotising. The pace is slow, ever so slow. But this is a book you want to stay in, be happy in, for as long as possible, so the pace is perfect (except for the “oh, no” when the book ended).
What would you have in an epic story about elves and Elfland? Yes, exactly. Bone Harp is not this kind of story. Instead, how about what comes after? After the battles. After the heartbreak and horror. After the dragon is slain. After the Enemy is defeated.
Tamsin the legendary hero, Tamsin the bard, Tamsin the fearsome killer awakes after a long magical sleep. He had been cursed; he himself had been a curse. Yet, here is a sense of peace.
“Nearer to him were green meadows, impossibly green, except where they were streaked and stippled with flowers – red and white, purple and gold, blue and pink, and some fine silvery thing like the glimmer of moonlight caught in his sword.
Tamsin breathed.”
He travels on, meeting two young elf-maids, River and Ash, to travel with. Their adventures and growing friendship are a delight.
" “Imagine,” River said dreamily, “other people!” Ash raised her eyebrows, and River hastily backtracked. “I mean – not that I don’t love you both - “
An utterly impossible inclusion, that both. River was so free with words. So free.""
This is a tale of healing, of redemption, of forgiveness, of acceptance, of beginning anew, of allowing yourself to come home. This is also a tale of those left behind when heroes go on their fabled impossible quests. Klara! “O Lady of Starlight, Lady of Shadows, Lady of Song.” I’ve never thought any characters in any book would remind me of Lúthien and Beren, but there they were, Klara and Tamsin. (Theirs is not the same story, but the atmosphere, the impact are the same.) It’s just that their story is… deeper, more mature, perhaps?
I loved the emotional intensity of the many reunions. The book ends in the best way, and I still wanted more.
In the author’s note, Victoria Goddard talks about the possibility of a sequel. Yes, please!… (mer)