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The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
Better than I'd thought going into the novel. McKinley's fantasy here has a kind of crunchy realism that only rarely drifts into McKillip-like territory, but it lacks the groundedness of someone later like Bujold, for example. This is folk fantasy developed as far from its gossamer roots as possible, and yet retaining the aura of "in a land far, far away"...
Protagonist Aerin is certainly living in a 1980s young adult mold, with her enablers and villains also struck from the same, but without the debilitating safeness that would colonize later YA.
Strongly recommended.
Protagonist Aerin is certainly living in a 1980s young adult mold, with her enablers and villains also struck from the same, but without the debilitating safeness that would colonize later YA.
Strongly recommended.