![]() ![]() ![]() It was while she made a new discovery, a well covered by thorny rose briars, that she first saw Corbet Lynn. ![]() Rois, like her mother, is as familiar with the woods as she was with her house, always barefoot, collecting various herbs and flowers in rain or shine, and making new discoveries. Her mother died when she was a baby from no illness that anyone could name she simply stopped eating and wasted away. Rois Melior lives with her father and her older sister Laura in a house on farmland. I mean to re-read the original because I remember little beyond the basic plot, but for now I’ll reflect on the book as it stands. In the Winter Rose Patricia McKillip draws heavily from The Snow Queen, written by Hans Christian Andersen: you know the one where a shard of a troll’s be-spelled mirror lodges itself into the heart of a boy, he’s kidnapped by the Snow Queen, and his friend tries to rescue him. So McKillip leap frogs over all the other books I plan to write about. ![]() It would be better if I narrowed the scope of my observations. It didn’t work because I was making all these sweeping generalisations when a) I love fantasy but I’m not a junkie ie I don’t read all that many and b) I’ve read, like, three fairy tales excluding the Andersen collection. I made an aborted attempt at writing what it was about fairy tales in the fantasy genre that stand out for me, even apart from the more expected fare that I love to bits. ![]()
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