Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Paperback | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 3.73 | 4294 Users | 280 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde #1) |
| Author | : | Cecilia Dart-Thornton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2002 by Warner Books (first published May 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. High Fantasy. Romance |
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In a thrilling debut that combines storytelling mastery with a treasure trove of folklore, Cecilia Dart-Thornton creates a lushly romantic epic adventure, set in a world brimming with wonders and terrors. The Stormriders land their splendid winged stallions on the battlements of Isse Tower, while the scullions who dwell in the fortress's lower depths rarely even see the sun. Yet it is the least of the lowly--a mute, scarred foundling youth--who dares to climb the Tower, stow away aboard a Windship, and dive from the sky into a wilderness of endless danger. For goblins, peskies, knocks, and all the eldrich wights of the Unseelie haunt every tree, every pool, every turn in the road, tormenting or killing unwary travelers. And unknown to the nameless one, somewhere a dark force is summoning the malignant hordes, determined to destroy the young mute's identity, history...and destiny.List Books Toward The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde #1)
| Original Title: | The Ill-Made Mute |
| ISBN: | 0446610801 (ISBN13: 9780446610803) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Bitterbynde #1 |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 4294 Users | 280 ReviewsCriticism About Books The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde #1)
I thought this book was super frustrating. I was really excited to read it based on the description of it and it started out well. There are soooo many amazing elements in this book: * Winged, flying horses that walk on the clouds with the help of these cool magnetic-y horseshoes. * Ditto -magnetic-y pirate ships that fly through the air. * the protagonist is a mute foundling, face scarred beyond recognition with no memory of how he/she came to be this way, no memory of the past. * he/she wasCONCLUSION: Alright, I've given up. It should not take immense effort to read a book about Irish myth and legend, about flying horses, about airships and adventure. But it is, and it was, because Dart-Thornton's need to overexplain and focus on every little insignificant thing didn't make this experience sweeping, it made it plodding, stodgy, and mindnumbing. As an author, you should not be letting your readers zone out, edit you, consider aspects they could have executed better. But that is
I believe this is her first novel and it's descriptive passages were bewitching, in the old sense of the word. When I read this book I kept getting so drawn into the story that I was often late for appointments! I would sink into the landscape of marshes, forests and fog-hidden villages. Its mythical arc spans more than one lifetime and is full of fey creatures that are very individual and fully-fleshed out.Its a fairy-tale for adults. Maybe even for children too, although dark and scary in
Odd book. Was wavering between "decent" and "eh', but I really liked the use of Celtic folk tales, so I was generous. She made a world where legendary folk-tale happenings were part of common, everyday life, but very different from books like One for the Morning Glory, or Bridge of Birds. The people were more like the historical Irish who told those tales, down to earth and unlovely and afraid.I wish she'd found a better tale to set in her background. And written it with more skill. Lots of
DNF because, shit, its boringI have had a brand new paperback copy of The Ill Made Mute sitting in my pile of to be read books ever since I first bought it on a word of mouth recommendation back in 2001 or so. I probably shouldve read it then because now I have no patience for the tediously descriptive, wandering plot that comprises this story. Thats what happens when you realize youre getting older and there are just not enough hours in the day to read boring books.Ill state up front that I
"Then the mizzenmast was braced around, jibs and staysails sheeted home, 'tween mast staysails reset, course steadied and the spanker eased off" Excuse me ? Could you put that in clear english or at least, as I saw suggested in another person's review of another book, put up a picture in which such things were marked clearly (and is it only me who really wants to know what a 'spanker' looks like ?) Cecilia Dart-Thornton luxuriates in words and images and boy does she have a lot of them. When she
Although it's definitely not "serious" literature, I couldn't help liking this book. A mix of original high fantasy, Celtic legend, and escapist romance come together in a dazzling if not all that substantial mélange.A youth, face hideously scarred and bearing other marks of violence, is found unconscious and brought to Isse Tower, a Stormrider's outpost. Deformed and ugly, and suffering from amnesia, the youth is reviled and works as a drudge the lowest of the low. Driven to escape on one of
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