The Bards of Bone Plain

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / McKillip, Patricia A.
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain--which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight.

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Love and Confusion... submitted by MariaK on February 25, 2011, 7:20pm ...are the emotions I feel after reading most books by Patricia McKillip, and this book is no exception. No matter how lovely her prose is as it glides over, around and through the story, eventually I reach a point where I no longer understand what is actually happening. But magic is more fun when it's vague and mysterious, so I'll just keep forgiving her. I loved the way this book tied together music and magic, the everyday and the otherworldly and the past and future. Although the characters come across a bit flat, I like the fairy-tale-like atmosphere.

Fans of the "Dreamhunter" books, "The Hero and the Crown" and Ursula K. LeGuin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" should definitely read this, and any number of other books by McKillip.