6/7/2023 0 Comments The blue sword book![]() ![]() Here’s the back cover blurb from my Firebird edition, which hits all the high points: Okay, this sounds a bit dismissive, and I don’t mean it to be, because this is a very decent example of its genre, a fast-moving bildungsroman incorporating a truly generous number of fantasy-fiction tropes, with undoubted inspiration from those who went this way before, most obviously perhaps our old friend J.R.R. There we have it in a nutshell.Įmbellishments include a rather good invented world based recognizably on colonial Great Britain and one of its more troublesome hot-place colonies, wonderfully psychic horses, stellar swordplay (our heroine is a natural, of course), giant domesticated cheetah-like cats (I want one!), not-quite-human bad guys, and a fair bit of magic.Īlso a strong silent type who just happens to be a king, and who does he fall for? ![]() Orphaned misfit tomboy rather unwillingly travels to a new home, finds herself, falls in love and is fallen in love with, saves a kingdom. This edition: Firebird (Penguin Putnam), 2002. ![]()
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