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A review by louloureadsbooks
Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip
Did not finish book.
No.
This one is not a winner, winner, McKillip dinner for me.
Started out well. Veered off. Too many different strands and nothing really happening.
It's not bad. But I can no longer keep listening in the hope that the next corner will get more exciting and pick up. It doesn't, it just moves to someone else's story and never allows you to get stuck in to anything.
Also, I've got tired of the princess being so totally wet with her aunt.
I like Elver, I like Brendan. All the characters are fine but there are too many different stories and it's diluted.
Does it all come together at the end, is magic freed in Numis, does Valeran get some sense knocked into him? Does Yar free himself? Does Arneth stand up for what he wants? Do the women in the story ever get heard? Does the king get a boot up the bum? Do we find out about the mysterious stones that aren't stones way up in the North? Does Od come back and sort everything out? I don't know and will probably never find out, I simply don't have the patience to listen to anymore.
I liked the narrator by the way.
This one is not a winner, winner, McKillip dinner for me.
Started out well. Veered off. Too many different strands and nothing really happening.
It's not bad. But I can no longer keep listening in the hope that the next corner will get more exciting and pick up. It doesn't, it just moves to someone else's story and never allows you to get stuck in to anything.
Also, I've got tired of the princess being so totally wet with her aunt.
I like Elver, I like Brendan. All the characters are fine but there are too many different stories and it's diluted.
Does it all come together at the end, is magic freed in Numis, does Valeran get some sense knocked into him? Does Yar free himself? Does Arneth stand up for what he wants? Do the women in the story ever get heard? Does the king get a boot up the bum? Do we find out about the mysterious stones that aren't stones way up in the North? Does Od come back and sort everything out? I don't know and will probably never find out, I simply don't have the patience to listen to anymore.
I liked the narrator by the way.