The US edition of this book was broken into two volumes, which makes it confusing but was a good move on their part (title 'wavesong' included). This is a very long book, in which a very many things happen and there are very many characters.That being said I still love it. This book contains one ...
This series end has been a long time coming, and maybe my fabulous review is purely based on my need and desire for the series to never end!Although I definitely felt it wasn't the best of the series, I've never struggled or hated any of IC's work. Purely because she is such a talented writer whi...
Oh god. This took me forever to finish. She ends up on Herder's Island, and she meets these weird Shadow people who freak me out. The last scene is her on the back of a dolphin, which is called ship-fish, or something equally idiotic. She and Rushton are finito, which makes me happy, as I had alw...
A Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn, young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety ...
Sequel to Night Gate, in which I was fascinated by the twelve-year-old heroine's stirrings-of-first-love relationship with Billy Thunder, her dog who turns into an attractive teenage boy when they go to fantasyland together to try to wake her mother from a coma.Now back in the real world, it turn...
I have a weakness for books like this. There is just something so compelling about a young character bravely going off into an adventure to save someone, with her trusty companions by her side. It's not about intelligence or physical prowess or magical aptitude, it's about strength of character a...
Scatterlings is Isobelle Carmody’s second novel, written in 1991. The story follows Merlin, a girl who has woken up in a strange world she does not recognise. Merlin remembers our world, complete with cities, homelessness and cars. But this world is full of primitive seeming tribes, barter system...
Who is Little Fur? Why, she's a half elf, half troll, as tall as a three-year-old human child, with slanted green eyes, wild red hair that brambles about her pointed ears, and bare, broad, four-toed feet. Little Fur loves and tends to the Old Ones, the seven ancient trees that protect her home, a...
Are Alyzon’s new abilities a blessing . . . or a curse?Alyzon Whitestarr doesn't take after her musically talented father or her nocturnal, artistic mother. In fact, she’s the most normal member of a very eccentric family . . . until the day that an accident leaves her more unique than she ever c...
A stunning collection of 14 short stories, full of provocative ideas and haunting images I ride this day upon the Worldroad, alone, except for Courage, who rides on the pommel of my saddle fluffing his feathers. I did not dream of journeying thus as a child . . . This is the unforgettable worl...
I opened my eyes to a dazzling stream of light, flinching and squinting and trying to think where I was, even as a door closed, leaving me with the dim glow of a lightstick. The dreams of the night, full of running, ravening beastmen, Rushton in their midst, running, too, slipped away before I co...
Yet for all that, it has endured, and even the briefest of internet searches soon reveals multiple versions of it. What all those versions have in common is a deceptively simple tale of a midwife who accidentally discovers that the ancient faerie folk are not just the stuff of legend. In the guis...
Hearing it, I start to my feet, the weight of the tapes try I have been working on pulling it from my fingers. Cloud-Marie gargles thickly in dismay and begins to gather the fabric up from the floor. It is densely embroidered and difficult to handle. When she has managed to heave it onto the rack...
I’d have hated to modernise the story in any way that diminished its essential fairytale quality. But to make it up-close-and-personal in the way of modern fiction, yet at the same time even more fairytale-ish – that was a dream worth pursuing! I suppose there are two them...
I found myself thinking of his mother, the witch queen, wondering if she would tell me where he was. The familiar streets were oddly quiet around me. It struck me that neighbourhoods grew up too. Kids get older and leave home, parents just get old. No more kids yelling in the street on weekends, ...
After that first meal, she did not come to the same sitting. I only saw her from a distance on the farms once or twice; then at last, one midmeal I saw her come out of a barn to collect her lunch. I followed and sat down beside her. “What do you want?” she asked listlessly. “Do you know me?” I sa...
My first thought was that Angina had succeeded in constraining Dragon’s mind, for my sleep had been undisturbed. “You must not go back to sleep. Mornirdragon grows restless as feelmusic weakens,” Maruman advised. I rolled over to stare at the old cat. He was curled into my pillow, his single yell...