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Sto caricando le informazioni... Harpy's Flight (1983)di Megan Lindholm
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Re-read this novel a few years ago and still loved it. The beginning, where Ki is climbing up the cliff to exact vengeance on the harpies who murdered her family is absolutely stunning and gut wrenchingly emotional. ( ) I must say, I really enjoyed this. I'm not a big fan of fantasy, but in part because that genre tends to have so many cliches, what with swords & elves & princesses. This is the first of four highly original books, in which humans are just one race among many, and not the primary, and in which males and females are equally free to choose their life calling. I've just started the third, actually, and oh boy are they giving me a lot to think about. Oh, and they're fun reads, too. Plenty of adventure and humor. I've ordered the next three and I know I'll be going to the P.O. every day to check our box until they come. And I hope they come in order. I read [The Reindeer People] and its sequel, very detailed, very 'real' - only fantasy in so far as it is not our world, no magic in it, not as you find in the [[Robin Hobb]] books. The same is more or less true in this one (there is some telepathy). Ki loses her husband and two children to a harpy, one of the four other "people" who share this world. The harpies fly and have a strong culture of their own, but they also feast on raw, freshly killed meat, including humans. They have an ability that humans crave and some humans have made a pact with them. (To say more would be to spoil.) Ki, who lives on the road, and hauls freight around, is bitter, seeks revenge. Vandien, appears out of nowhere (trying to steal one of her horses) and ends up staying with her, although of course it is quite problematical. The book moves back and forth between her present and her recent past. It is very well done and I enjoyed it very much. **** nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A reissue of classic backlist titles from the author of the best selling Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders books. HARPY'S FLIGHT was Lindholm's first novel, and the first in the WINDSINGERS series, which introduced her popular gypsy characters, Ki and Vandien. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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