Declare Of Books Winter Rose (Winter Rose #1)
| Title | : | Winter Rose (Winter Rose #1) |
| Author | : | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1997 by Ace (first published July 1st 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Young Adult. Romance. Retellings |
Patricia A. McKillip
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 262 pages Rating: 3.85 | 6841 Users | 373 Reviews
Representaion In Favor Of Books Winter Rose (Winter Rose #1)
Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours... Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather's curse were rekindled by young and old - and rumours filled the heavy air of summer. In the woods that border Lynn Hall, free-spirited Rois Melior roams wild and barefooted in search of healing herbs. She is as hopelessly unbridled - and unsuited for marriage - as her betrothed sister Laurel is domestic. In Corbet's pale green eyes, Rois senses a desperate longing. In her restless dreams, mixed with the heady warmth of harvest wine, she hears him beckon. And as autumn gold fades, Rois is consumed with Corbet Lynn, obsessed with his secret past - until, across the frozed countryside and in flight from her own imagination, truth and dreams become inseparable...
Describe Books During Winter Rose (Winter Rose #1)
| Original Title: | Winter Rose |
| ISBN: | 0441004385 (ISBN13: 9780441004386) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Winter Rose #1 |
| Characters: | Rois Melior, Laurel Melior, Corbet Lynn |
| Literary Awards: | Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1996), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1997), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee (1997) |
Rating Of Books Winter Rose (Winter Rose #1)
Ratings: 3.85 From 6841 Users | 373 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Winter Rose (Winter Rose #1)
I love the evocative writing where dream and reality blend and are impossible to tell apart. This part was great, as was the hidden magic underneath the surface. What I liked less was way the story dragged out. It's pretty clear from early on that this is going to be a type of Tam Lin retelling. The heroine, Rois wanders out in the night a few too many times looking for Corbert, the mysterious and obviously enchanted/cursed neighbor. It got to be IMO too repetitive. It would have been better toI've been hearing praise about McKillip's books for a while, so when I found out that she had written a "Tam Lin" retelling, I was excited to finally be introduced to her works.By far my favorite aspect of Winter Rose is the language. Beautiful, nostalgic, and searching, it perfectly conveys the greater themes of the novel. The hard winds sang their way into my dreams again that night. Long, white, insistent fingers of snow brushed against the window glass until I saw the storm out of memory,
3 stars solely for the quality of McKillip's writing - evocative, lyrical, full of beautiful imagery. Sort of a combination of Marillier's style, which is vivid, always filled with otherworldly and draws inspiration from folklore, and McKinley's - which is heavy on psychedelic "trips" her heroines have to go through to evolve and grow.Winter Rose is an interesting enough Tam Lin re-imagining, too bad so much of the story is dedicated to the main character's running in the woods or in snow or
Full review posted here.As far as retellings of Tam Lin go, this one does an excellent job maintaining the story and characters. The meeting at the well with roses, the heroines heedless love of running through the woods in unladylike manner, the heros cold manipulative indifference, the curse, the unfeeling Faerie Queen, the heroine holding the hero through transformations to break the curse, it is all here. This story adds the twist of the sister equally fascinated by the hero. Corbet wants
Rois sees a man walk out to the woods. . . and being a rather wild thing herself, she gathers flowers and herbs and returns to learn of Corbet Lynn, who returned home to claim his grandfather's lands, which have fallen to wrack and ruin since the day so many years ago when his father killed his grandfather and ran off, cursed by that grandfather. Not that any two people can tell the same story of what the curse was, or any one person tell who was there to see that it was murder, or hear the
This is a beautifully written, near-hallucinatory little novel, almost breathless in its telling of the story of a young man, Corbet Lynn, who returns to the ruins of his ancestral home, Lynn Hall, and starts to rebuild. There's a village rumor of a family curse, a dying man's words no one can quite remember the same way, as if the words and the memories shift with each retelling. One winter Corbet's grandfather was murdered by his son, TearleCorbet's fatherwho then disappeared without a trace
This book offered me everything I most certainly did not expect to get. I am not sure what I did anticipate but definitely not this. Yes, I signed up for an enchanting fairy tale about magic, light or dark, about otherworldly creatures, bizarre or wonderful, about the never-bending love or maybe not and I received something entirely different, something more complex and mysterious than that. I was offered an exquisitely written tale about need, loss and life. And I came to love the path I did
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