Title: A Tale of Faery in it's oldest and highest form
Product review: An eldritch scullery maid who's mute; a powerful angry mage; a young prince in spectacles. Inexorably events involving these three unfold as in our best beloved fairy tales. The Book of Atrix Wolfe may not be McKillip's best (that honor is still associated with The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) but her story-telling still soars in the realm of high fantasy.This is a faery tale, serious high fantasy, displaying glints of humor but told in powerful and vivid language. In particular McKillip's rendition of a medieval kitchen is perhaps the most delightfully evocative kitchen to be encountered in the fantasy genre.Readers who've enjoyed Robin McKinley's Beauty may be equally enchanted with McKillip's work but should be warned that The Book of Atrix Wolfe is serious and heady stuff.
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