Mette Ivie Harrison
Författare till The Princess and the Hound
Om författaren
Mette Ivie Harrison received a Master's Degree in German literature from Brigham Young University in 1990 and a PhD in Germanic languages and literatures from Princeton University in 1995. She worked as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University until 1997, when she left to spend more time visa mer with her children and work on her fiction writing career. Her first young adult novel, The Monster in Me, was published in 2003. Her young adult works include Mira, Mirror, The Princess and the Hound, The Rose Throne, and Tris and Izzie. Her first novel for adults, The Bishop's Wife, was published in 2014. She also wrote a memoir entitled Ironmom: Training and Racing with a Family of 7 under Mette Harrison. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Mette Ivie Harrison
Young Haikor 4 exemplar
The Magician's Apprentice 3 exemplar
E for Ekhono 2 exemplar
The Queen's Truth 1 exemplar
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- Födelsedag
- 1970-09-13
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Summit, New Jersey, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Orem, Utah, USA
- Utbildning
- Princeton University (PhD|Germanic languages and literature)
Brigham Young University (MA|German Literature)
Brigham Young University (BA|German) - Yrken
- young adult writer
novelist
adjunct professor
triathlete
podcaster - Organisationer
- Brigham Young University (adjunct)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly)
Exponent II (fiction editor)
Weber State University (adjunct professor)
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- 30
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- 11
- Medlemmar
- 2,136
- Popularitet
- #12,045
- Betyg
- 3.3
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- 152
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- 82
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At first I couldn't stand George. His detached way of viewing things irked me. He admits at least once that the growing wall between himself and his father, after his mother dies, could have been avoided if he had reached out to his father. Yet, he still regards his father with civility alone and is troubled when his father tries to approach anything close to a 'normal' relationship with him.
Beatrice was a harder read. I spent a lot of time trying to deduce the riddle the title presented. Of all the theories I came up with however, none of them adequately covered the truth and so when the reveal came I was left delightfully surprised. I liked her better for it as well. The relationship between Beatrice and Marit (the Hound) is part of the puzzle, but Marit as an individual is equally interesting to read about. Her interactions with George are a little heart-wrenching and the connection between the three is tense.
On the one hand George has these memory like dreams of what Beatrice was like younger--less blunt, a little softer, smiled a little more (though her history isn't a happy one). But the Beatrice of now is blunt, harsh, rude and indifferent towards him more often then not. He's falling in love with the Beatrice of the dreams, but can't reconcile how she could change so greatly.
The 'villain' of the piece is a magician from a long time ago. However its honestly more truthful to say that not any one person is at fault. Though the magician did what he did out of revenge and anger over what happened to his daughter, Beatrice's father and George's father were both at fault. So busy with their wars and games they didn't pay attention to anything else. Or in Beatrice's father's case he only noticed the faults his daughter possessed, none of the good. Every single one of the character's is flawed, but communication (and lack thereof) is the biggest fault any of them have.
George doesn't talk to his father about his fears about being the King one day, George's father doesn't talk to George about the death of his mother and how much they both miss her (and how guilty he felt), Beatrice doesn't talk about her true feelings with George, Beatrice's father only yells and rails at his daughter for all her perceived problems. George and Beatrice don't discuss, until much later in the book, their feelings on the marriage and how they can come to an easier accommodation. George's mother didn't tell him about the dangers of his power to understand animals. And half the time the people did it because they wanted to protect the other.
The sequel, The Princess and the Bear, is about two characters (both introduced in this book) and the connection they forged by the end of this novel. I enjoyed this book, enjoyed its interpretation of the fairy tale and the twists it took. I wish we could have seen things from Beatrice's viewpoint, instead of hearing everything second hand, but overall I was very happy.… (mer)