Name: The Bards of Bone Plain
ISBN: 9781937007232

Patricia A. McKillip

The Bards of Bone Plain

The bards of Bone Plain

Christine

absolutely did not understand this book. dont really care enough to think too hard about it either .. i wanted so desperately to understand like, idk, fire and hemlock, but this one i'm just like yea ok that happened. Cool! i called it from like chapter 2 btw. def not McKillip's best work. still decently enjoyable. i just did not care enough about anything .. Phelan was kinda cool i guess and Jonah but it was just so. weirdly janky otherwise & i didn't really get into Zoe (i liked her, but didn't love) or Beatrice (i did like the whole vaguely steampunky society with a princess going on archeological digs - banger) or the rest of them. Nairn's story was just Strange with a capital S which i get is the point but also jarring in the rest of the narrative??? i know it weaves back in but i didn't really like the wack pacing? idk i'm generally just confused. atmospherically, great! definitely McKillip! bards and minstrels! but i am just bewildered and confuzzled. also there was absolutely no clear thread of romance it just abruptly Showed Up ? ? ????? im really baffled by this book tbh i'm not confused in the sense of how the narratives intertwine i even mostly got the vague magic part it is just SO odd and i did not connect at all. DID like the way we got to read Phelan's work. anyway. i still love McKillip i should reread riddle-master now thinking about it

The Bards of Bone Plain

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