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Welcome to A-Z Wednesday!!
To join, here's all you have to do: Go to your stack of books and find one whose title starts with the letter of the week. Post:
1~ a photo of the book
2~ title and synopsis
3~ link(amazon, barnes and noble etc.)
4~ Link back to Reading at the Beach. If you've reviewed your book you can add it also. Be sure to visit other participants to see what book they have posted and leave them a comment. (We all love comments, don't we?) Who knows? You may find your next "favorite" book.
THIS WEEKS LETTER IS: H
Since this is "read a banned book week" I was going to pick a banned book. The only H book I've read that has been banned is the Harry Potter Series. So I decided not to post about those books because hasn't EVERYBODY read them?
So I chose a book I absolutely love.
The Hero and the Crown
by
Robin McKinley
Synopsis
From childhood, Aerin had been haunted by the story of her mother-a "witchwoman" who enspelled the king and then died in childbirth, leaving behind a newborn daughter and an heirless land. Left to her own devices, Aerin grew up wild, doing her best to live up to her reputation as the disappointment of the realm. But little did the young princess know the long-dormant powers of her mother would wield their own destiny, and leave Aerin with a duty to her scornful homeland that she couldn't refuse.
Biography
Robin McKinley is a New York Times bestselling author who has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor.
If you love a good mix of fantasy, romance, adventure, and heroics--give this book a try. And then follow it up with its sequel, "The Blue Sword"
9 comments:
I think McKinley is an author who was recommended to me as good for people who are leary of fantasy. I may just have to pick one up someday!
Sounds perfect for me! I love fantasy.
I haven't read many fantasy book... maybe I should start?
here's mine
I have not read it ever!
Here is my A-Z Wednesday post!
I've not heard of this series. Sounds good though!
Sounds like my kind of heroine.
Thank you for posting, sounds like a good read, I too have never read this authors book, is this Young Adult, (would that I was a young adult). Stop by I'm home.
I did not know of this book or author; looks good! Thanks!
==lennie=
It's so funny that you picked The Hero and the Crown because I remember having that book when I was growing up (I would have been about 10 or 11) ... I made my Mom buy it for me at a library sale for no other reason than I loved the cover art. I never read it. Go figure.
I guess that now I'm going to have to go and dig up a copy and actually read it.
My "H" book is HERE
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