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Kate Forsyth
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The Tower of Ravens (Rhiannon's Ride, Book 1) |
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English |
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Mass Market Paperback |
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448 |
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2005-06-07 |
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0451460324 |
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Ace |
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0.44 pounds |
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1.2 x 4.2 x 6.71 inches |
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First Edition |
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Product Description
One-Horn’s daughter is not like the others of her kind. Born of a human father, she lacks the horns so prized by her people and is scorned even by her own mother. Her only chance for escape is to capture one of the legendary flying horses and ride it to freedom.
So this strange, feral girl begins a dangerous journey of love, death, and betrayal that will earn her a new name: Rhiannon, the rider no one can catch.
Rescued and taken to the home of Lewen, a young man just beginning to understand his own magical potential, Rhiannon is fascinated by the human world and by Lewen. Together they travel through a land where the dead walk and ghosts haunt the living, a place where Rhiannon encounters dark forces that endanger all of Eileanan. But to save the land, she must convince Lewen and the other apprentice-witches to trust the word of a wild half-human girl.
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Cherith (USA: KS) (2006/08/08):
Earlier this year I finished up the last books in her six part series called The Witches of Eileanan. "Ravens" was an interesting find, because it's the first in a new series called Rhiannon's Ride, which takes place some twenty years or so after the end of the last book in the Eileanan series. However, if you never read the first series, this one would be a nice place to start anyway. She glosses over some of the high points of the previous series, without going indepth over every bit of the past, like some authors would. Plus, where the Eileanan series tends to be a bit dramatic, world-war sort of fantasy, The Tower of Ravens is just a story about a girl, that's a little different. Plus, there's a black horned Pegasus involved, and that's always cool. *grin* One thing to be warned of, if you ever pick up any of these books by Forsyth, is the dialogue. There's quite a bit of a Scottish accent, and it's a little difficult to get used to at first. The nice thing about the newer books though, is that there's a glossary in the back, for those that get confused easily, or like that sort of thing. Most of it can be figured out in context though, which is also nice.
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