Humility Garden [Paperback]

Felicity Savage (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1995

Young Humility Garden discovers that her fate is inextricably intertwined with that of the land of Salt--a place of secretive ghostiers, ruling gods, eternal love, divine beauty, and ruthless politics.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Like Tanith Lee, Felicity Savage is getting an early start. She's 19 years old, and this entertaining novel is her first.

"...Savage has a wondrously individual imagination, a gift for the sensuous detail, and a wit as dark as her Divinarch's." --Locus

Review

Humility Garden heralds one of the freshest and most interesting voices to enter fantasy in a long time. Felicity Savage has created memorable characters as quirky and complex as human beings...Read this book, and anything else Felicity Savage writes. You will be richly rewarded. -- Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Roc (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451453980
• ISBN-13: 978-0451453983
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,172,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Felicity Savage is an American fantasy author. Born in South Carolina, Savage lived until the age of two in rural France, and then in the west of Ireland. At six, she moved with her family to the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, where she joined the Girl Guides and appeared in productions of Robin Hood and Peter Pan at the RAF base on Benbecula. Her first novel, Humility Garden, and its sequel Delta City were published by Penguin ROC in 1994 and 1995, while she was still at Columbia University. Her Ever trilogy was published by HarperCollins in 1995, 1996, and 1997. Savage was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1995 and 1996. She currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, with her husband, daughter, and two cats (one fat and one insane). When not writing, she works as a Japanese translator, sings Gregorian chant, and moonlights as a serial houseplant killer.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting...loses it at the end, May 12, 2000

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This review is from: Humility Garden (Paperback)

This book is the first half of the story of Humility Garden. It is continued in "Delta City". Humility is an ordinary rural youngster who doesn't quite fit in with her family. When her brother is selected to be given to the decadent other-worldly rulers, she follows him to the big city. She quickly discovers that the honor of her brother's sacrifice by the ghostiers is a mockery and that her culture is stagnated and top-heavy. Revolution follows.

The setting up of this story is wonderful. The ghostiers are interesting and disfunctional. Once Humility gets in over her head it gets dull and political. I didn't bother reading Delta City, however this book was worth it for the ghostiers alone, and I'm glad I read it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a unique story..., July 15, 1998

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This review is from: Humility Garden (Paperback)

This one is different from most fantasy books; it doesn't fit the mold, and that is a plus. This is not a black/white good/bad sort of world, the politics of Salt are something different. While reading it, I had a hard time liking the main character, and the plot sometimes went beyond the strange to the silly. But by the end the author succeeds because the world she creates is interesting enough that I can't imagine how this will all work out.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Many slow scenes but a good book, July 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Humility Garden (Paperback)

There are places where this book takes too long to get to the point and some characters are rather dull. Still it is an enjoyable, and the comparison to Tanith Lee is appropriate. The world alternates between utterly fascinating and slightly roleplaying game-ish.

I will definitely want to read the sequel.