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Title: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0-441-06880-4 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: April, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.72 (180 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my all-time favorites!
Comment: An intoxicating world is summoned by Robin McKinley's evocative writing. The Blue Sword concludes the historical fantasy of Damar. This story takes place a few centuries after Aerin and her adventures in The Hero and the Crown, but the same spirit haunts its sequel. Our heroine extraordinaire is Harry, an ordinary, bored orphan living Daria with a military officer and his family. A political meeting with the rogue king of the Hills leads to Harry's reluctant kidnapping.
King Corlath, whose sixth sense, called kelar, tells him his people need Harry. So he trains her as a warrior as the Damarians/Darians prepare for war. Harry's loyalties are tested as she grows and flourishes in her new role as Harimad-sol and find she cannot follow Corlath. Her choice carries massive repercussions for both her people and Corlath's people, who she has come to honor.
This is an amazing story that layers itself into a breath-taking trip of empowerment and adventure. One of my all-time favorite fantasies, I return to this book for it's comforting, entertaining qualities. Its prequel is much more intense and heavy with realism. Critically, The Hero and the Crown is the superior, but the feel-good and fairy tale aura of The Blue Sword is much more accessible than the rich, but mature world of Aerin.
Rating: 5
Summary: You won't be able to put it down.
Comment: "The Blue Sword" is about Angharad -- Harry -- Crewe, a recently orphaned young lady who moves to the desert area of the continent Damar. By chance she locks eyes with Corlath, the Hill-King, who had come to visit the residency. It was, perhaps, fate, but it changes their lives forever. To tell you any more might give it away, but you can always read the book jacket. This book was interesting in the beginning, and soon graduated to compelling and then impossible-to-put-down. I was reading this on a school night and used up 2 hours of precious homework time because I just HAD to know what happened. All the right details were there, but so subtle that it the end was a pleasant surprise. The writing was so vivid that you could feel your heart racing during the exciting parts. You have to read this book at least 3 times to get all the details. Then read Robin McKinley's other books to get a true appreciation for her wonderful writing talent.
--Abigail Short
Rating: 2
Summary: A Great Book
Comment: This is one of the best books i have ever read, and i've read a lot. It nearly ranks with The Lord of the Rings, and its the greatest book ever written.
Harry Crewe is a normal girl who has to move from her Homeland (remarkably like England) to her brother's outpost when her parents die. She's bored, sitting around Lord Charles and Lady Amelia's (who pretty much adopted her) house, and riding horses with her airheaded friends Beth and Cassie Peterson. Then one day, everything changes. The king of the Free Hillfolk, Corlath, rides in, asking Lord Charles for help against the demon Northeners. Charles refuses, and Corlath gets mad and storms out. But his kelar (magic) "tells" him to kidnap Harry, which he does. Harry at first has a hard time fitting in with the Hillfolk, and Corlath (who i think of as being really hot)gives Harry a awesome horse named Tsornin (Sungold), and sets one of his riders to teach her to fight, because she has a lot of kelar too.
It's really cool when Harry gets mad in training and knocks Mathin (the Rider) off his horse. (and to the person who said that its dumb the way Harry learns so fast, they should re-read the book: her kelar makes her so able to learn! Wake up and use your brain!) Then she wins the laprun trials, the trials of the untried warriors, and Corlath makes her a Rider and gives her the Blue Sword, Gonturan.
After she meets Luthe (whom readers of The Hero and the Crown will recognize), she gets in a big arguement with Corlath, and rides of with her friends Senay and Terim, and along with some soldiers from the Homelander fort and some archers, she holds off the leader of the Northeners, and along with Gonturan, Aerin and Corlath's help, defeats the Northeners.
Of course, she and Corlath get married, and the book is actually quite romantic :-) this book is great, and i recommend it to EVERYONE who like romance and/or magic.
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Title: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0441328091 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0064404773 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Deerskin by Robin McKinley ISBN: 044100069X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0441005837 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Sunshine by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0425191788 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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