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| Original Title: | Ombria in Shadow |
| ISBN: | 0441010164 (ISBN13: 9780441010165) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2003), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2003), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Roman étranger (2006), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2007) |
Patricia A. McKillip
Paperback | Pages: 298 pages Rating: 3.99 | 4454 Users | 262 Reviews
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Ombria is a place heaped with history -- and secrets. There is a buried city beneath it inhabited by ghosts, accessible only through magical passages and long-forgotten doorways. When the Prince of Ombria dies suddenly, his wicked great-aunt Domina Pearl seizes power by becoming regent to the prince's young son, Kyel. Minutes after the prince's death, Domina kicks Lydea, the prince's longtime mistress, out into the streets to die. But she is saved by a strange girl named Mag, a supposed waxling created by a powerful sorceress who lives underneath the city. With the help of Mag and the prince's bastard nephew, a strange, silver-eyed man obsessed with drawing, Lydea tries to save Kyel and somehow defeat Domina.
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| Title | : | Ombria in Shadow |
| Author | : | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 298 pages |
| Published | : | February 4th 2003 by Ace (first published January 17th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. High Fantasy. Young Adult. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 4454 Users | 262 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Ombria in Shadow
This is my fourth McKillip novel (I read the Harpist trilogy first), and in each of them I often struggled to understand what was going on. Her writing is so lyrical, so poetic, that I don't always follow what it's saying. People move around and I can't follow how they got from point a to point b. A plot point develops, a mystery is raised or resolved, and I don't understand what the character just figured out. I generally like it, and the writing is often clever and lovely, if sometimesI was slightly disappointed with this novel and almost gave it 2 stars. The writing,prose style impressed at times very much but the story was lacking something until the last dozen pages and the characters was a bit thin,not so intresting except Mag,Faey.Next i want to read one of her Fantasy Masterworks books to really judge if she is to my taste or not. Her prose that seemed full of spark,style lost its lustre because i didnt feel for the story until it was too late.
This book was odd, but in the best possible way. The world building was fascinating, and as always, Ms McKillip's prose was beautiful.
McKillip is one of those authors I've been ignoring my entire life, having long-ago assumed that her work consisted of wispy fantasies for adolescents about bonding with unicorns and the like; fortunately, I encountered Mark Monday's review of this, a singularly ethereal and otherworldly novel, and quickly changed some assumptions. The words 'dreamlike' and 'gothic' are used repeatedly to describe this book, and these are quite apropos: McKillip's Ombria, a mixture of Gormenghast and Viriconium,
If Patricia McKillip burned down my house while chanting "Fenris is the worst Dragon Age character," I would still log on to Goodreads dot com and give this book five stars. I loved it that much. Like all of her books it's a cipher and a dreamscape, filled with beautiful imagery, a fascinating, intricate setting and magic that is truly mystical and transformative. I think she has a special knack for writing these wonderful "odd" young female characters like Luna, Peri, Saro and Sybel, and Mag
I would recommend this book to people who really enjoyed Peake's Titus Groan or the whole line of the Gormenghast novels. Both are slow, gothic, and obsessed with language and timing.There were some quite beautiful passages and overall, I did enjoy the story. It wasn't my favorite KIND of story, however, and I wasn't always as engaged in the tale of the magical usurper/regent and her charges as I probably should have been. It was a case of the details carrying the weight of the plot more than
Another superb Fantasy masterpiece by McKillip and all-time personal favorite. And again, as with my original notes on Forgotten Beasts (McKillip, read immediately following), too much time has passed for me to write a proper review now. But it doesn't matter as I am looking forward to waiting a bit longer to return from within the shadows for a mandatory re-read. If the concept of a fantastical medieval, coastal castle-city that has two dimensional sides, one in light (similar to our world) and
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