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The Iron Tree: Book One of The Crowthistle Chronicles
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The Iron Tree: Book One of The Crowthistle Chronicles
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by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Sales Rank : 671456
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Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Tor Fantasy February 7, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765350548
ISBN-13: 978-0765350541
Product Dimensions:
6.7 x 4.2 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
If Tolkien wrote romance, the result might be something like the first volume of Australian author Dart-Thornton's new fantasy trilogy (after the Bitterbynde trilogy, which began with The Ill-Made Mute). While on a journey to discover more about his mysterious antecedents, Jarred, the book's handsome hero, meets the beauteous Lilith, who's cursed by "a malediction of the bloodline" that dooms one spouse of a pair to an early death while the other is "driven mad by some delusion of being followed." She cares for Jarred too much to wed and hurt him and their offspring. Jarred adds a second familial quest to his first in order to thwart the curse, and the lovers are soon involved in years of convoluted if fairly convincing adventures. Fueled by Celtic folklore, the novel is packed with unusual minor characters, including an eccentric queen obsessed with a single color at a time. The author's poetic pseudo-medieval style, evidently inspired by Keats and Shakespeare, veers from the enchantingly effective to the occasionally irritating. The goblet brimmeth over with elements typical of epic fantasy (sorcerers, monsters, magic jewels, untold treasures, etc.) and of the currently fashionable subgenre of paranormal romance (otherworldly amour, supernatural goings-on, great looks, good hair, etc.); the brew will undoubtedly prove popular. Agent, Martha Millard.
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Product Review
“Dart-Thornton has crafted an impressive start to an epic journey down the corridors of myth and legend.This isn’t a fairy tale wrapped up with a happily-ever-after, but readers looking for an intense and old-fashioned magical world will eagerly anticipate the next step in the journey.”—Romantic Times BookClub Magazine on The Iron Tree
"Endowing her characters with courtly yet bucolic diction, almost Elizabethan, and casting her narrative in clean yet poetic prose, Dart-Thornton conjures up her world of Tir and its rituals and beliefs in the luminous yet hard-edged manner of Jack Vance or Mary Gentle."—The Washington Post on The Iron Tree
“The first Crowthistle volume is a leisurely paced romance of extraordinary events. One can almost hear Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov or Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music in the background as Jarred tries to free himself from the clinging skeleton or takes the lovely Lilith in his arms. With scenes as vivid as any Technicolor extravaganza, The Iron Tree will capture readers’ imaginations.”—Starlog on The Iron Tree
"Dart-Thornton conjures up her world of Tirin the luminous yet hard-edged manner of Jack Vance or Mary Gentle."
(The Washington Post )
“Dart-Thornton has crafted an impressive start to an epic journey down the corridors of myth and legend.”
(Romantic Times BookClub Magazine )
“With scenes as vivid as any Technicolor extravaganza, The Iron Tree will capture readers’ imaginations.”
(Starlog )
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