A review by jsmithborne
Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip

5.0

I just love Patricia McKillip. Her stories are so expectation-defying, in just wonderful ways. In this book, not every major character gets paired off, the bad guys are really more gray than black, and turn out to be redeemable, and the big climax is like the opposite of a fighting and killing or defeating sort of event. It's still so engaging and absorbing, though, that it's not until I was thinking about it afterwards that I realized that nothing had worked out the way I thought it would.