Daughter of the Forest captivated me right off the bat and kept me spellbound from start to finish. It's the first of a trilogy and I can't wait to read the other 2 books. Juliet Marillier is a master of description and really made the scenery and people come alive for me.
Sorcha, the daughter of an Irish warlord, must complete an arduous task in order to save her 6 brothers from a terrible spell. In doing so she comes face to face with her families greatest enemies and learns much about herself.
In the course of her journey, she tells and retells Irish legends and learns about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. She loses her voice but keeps an ability to communicate with ehr brothers and her true love in other ways. The ending is a little predictable, but one can't really expect the heroine to die in the first of a trilogy, can one?
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Free Food For Millionaires
This book was OK and an easy summer read. I picked it up from the new books section at the library because the title Free Food for Millionaires caught my eye and I was curious about this free food for millionaires!
Author Min Jin Lee does a wonderful job of developing several characters who interact with Casey Han as she makes the transition from Princeton to the real world. Basically Casey finds that the real world is HARD and people without wealthy parents have to work for what they get. Actually all kinds of terrible things seem to happen to Casey and everyone she knows.
I found the characters interesting and for the most part the plot was good. It drug on here and there. But, the ending fell flat and left me irritated that I'd read the whole thing for no real conclusion. Perhaps Lee will write a sequel and satisfy my need for closure. Or perhaps the point of her book is that there is no closure.
Since it's an easy read I'd recommend it. You could read it 10 times in the amount of time it'd take to read something like Weaveworld!
Author Min Jin Lee does a wonderful job of developing several characters who interact with Casey Han as she makes the transition from Princeton to the real world. Basically Casey finds that the real world is HARD and people without wealthy parents have to work for what they get. Actually all kinds of terrible things seem to happen to Casey and everyone she knows.
I found the characters interesting and for the most part the plot was good. It drug on here and there. But, the ending fell flat and left me irritated that I'd read the whole thing for no real conclusion. Perhaps Lee will write a sequel and satisfy my need for closure. Or perhaps the point of her book is that there is no closure.
Since it's an easy read I'd recommend it. You could read it 10 times in the amount of time it'd take to read something like Weaveworld!
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