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by: Patricia A. McKillip
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441010110
ISBN: 0441010113
Label: Ace Hardcover
Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 03, 2003
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Sales Rank: 886556
Studio: Ace Hardcover
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Product Description:
In the tales of World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia McKillip, nothing is ever as it seems. A mirror is never just a mirror; a forest is never just a forest. Here, it is a place where a witch can hide in her house of bones and a prince can bargain with his heart...where good and evil entwine and wear each others' faces...and where a bird with feathers of fire can quench the fiercest longing...
Amazon.com Review:
Like Ursula K. Le Guin and Jane Yolen, World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip (author of Riddle-Master, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and Ombria in Shadow) is one of the great fantasy authors working at the turn of the millennium. In her beautifully written novel In the Forests of Serre, McKillip again demonstrates her intimate understanding of the mysteries of magic and the human heart.
Everyone in the kingdom of Serre avoids the Mother of All Witches, an ugly, powerful, and dangerous woman who lives in the Forest of Serre. But then the grief-blinded Prince of Serre rides down the witch's white hen and earns her curse. Prince Ronan believes nothing can be worse than what he has already experienced: the death of his wife and their newborn. But soon the curse destroys what little the prince has left, and he wanders lost and half-mad through the Forest of Serre, pursuing a beautiful, elusive firebird that may be an illusion, or his doom. His only hope may be the young Princess Sidonie of Dacia, to whom his brutal father betrothed him against his will... and hers. But Princess Sidonie may have no interest in helping a man she's never met. And her powerful, mysterious magician-guardian, Gyre, has secret intentions and desires of his own. --Cynthia Ward
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Lovely Fairy Tale...
of love and loss. Loosely based on the Russian/Slavic Folk tales (Baba Yaga-with her hut on chicken's legs), the Firebird, Koschei the Immortal whose heart and soul are kept elsewhere), this is far more than you would normally think of such a setting. Nicely ambiguous characters (the witch Brume is both horrifying and strangely flawed), touches of wit and McKilipp's seamless, gorgeous prose keep the plot moving along.
Rating: - Pure fantasy
Patricia McKillip is perhaps the msot consistent writer of pure fantasy writing today. She uses the common genre tropes (magic, dragons, unicorns, witches) and turns them into brilliant neo-fairy stories. I cannot recomend her books strongly enough.
Rating:  - In the Forests of Serre, who knows what will happen?
In the Forests of Serre was my first McKillip novel and after reading it I was hooked! I'll admit that it is a bit confusing and you have to think quite a bit before you figure out what it is about. However, it is definitely worth reading and you will probably find yourself grabbing every single one of her books that you can lay a hand on afterwards!
It alternates point of view between several characters: Prince Ronan, Princess Sidonie, the wizard Gyre, and Euan Ashe, a scribe. The ... Read More
Rating: - "I Broke My Heart to Get It for You..."
Patricia A. McKillip once more takes us into her intricate and ornate imagination with "In the Forests of Serre", which has the feeling of an old fairytale that McKillip has discovered in some old book and fleshed-out for us in her unique style of writing. Combining several components from various myths and legends, (predominantly the Firebird and a witch who bears more than a passing resemblance to the Russian Baba Yaga), "In the Forests of Serre" is a book that McKillip's fans will find to their ... Read More
Rating: - The Heart of Serre
Do you know the value your heart? If you think you do, do you know yourself that well? Dive in the magical tale weaved by the firebird that reflected each one's heart desire.
Serre, a mighty kingdom, with its dense and enchanted forest. Dacia, a small but wealthy kingdom, with infamous magical veined kings, except its latest one. To prevent magical war between them, Sidonie, Princess of Dacia, and Ronan, Prince of Serre, were trapped in royal marriage plan although both of them tried to ... Read More
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