A review by danilanglie
The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip

2.0

This honestly really couldn't hold my attention very well. I sense a lot of similarities with other fantasy I've read that was written around this time - it felt kind of... Earthsea-ish to me? Not necessarily in a bad way, it just didn't grip my attention. I had high hopes at first, I really liked the stuff with the siblings at the beginning, and the start of the journey, going back to the riddle school and all that. But then it just became kind of a meandering series of episodes leading vaguely toward a conclusion I found I didn't really care about? I don't know. It's possible I didn't give this book a fair shake, and I should have tried to pay better attention to it, and absorb the gifts it had to offer. But I have to give it low marks just based on my reading experience.