The Moon & Sun: The Silver Door [Mass Market Paperback]

Holly Lisle (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Moon & Sun

In the powerful, lyrical follow-up to THE RUBY KEY, Genna must master her new powers and summon an ancient magic to save her people in the fight for their freedom.

In the battle between nightlings and humans, it's prophesied that the Sunrider is destined to unite the magics of the sun and moon for the good of all. She alone can lead the fight to defeat an immortal evil.

Genna is the chosen Sunrider, and under nightling protection, she must learn the ancient magics so she may bring an end to the war between slaves and masters. When she escapes a brutal plot concoted by the evil kai lords, Genna finds herself cast into the depths of the Sun Wizards' world.

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About the Author

Holly Lisle has been doing the pro novelist gig since 1992.  Prior to that, she was an on-again, off-again missionaries' kid, high-school entrepreneur, and once past graduation, a newspaper ad rep, a sign-painter/commercial artist, the "window girl" at a McDonald's, a guitar teacher for absolute beginners, a singer at local restaurants, and because all of those together paid starvation wages, she went to nursing school the next year, and two years later was an RN.

For ten years.  

She paid off her student loan the same year she got her first three-book contract, and...well...she's been writing for her supper ever since.

She is active online, providing courses teaching what she has discovered about writing fiction as well as maintaining her own weblog and website, HollyLisle.com. And with more than a million books in print via commercial publishers, she has now moved to publishing herself.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Orchard Books; 1 edition (May 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0545000157
• ISBN-13: 978-0545000154
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #811,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Holly Lisle has been writing fiction professionally since 1991, when she sold FIRE IN THE MIST, the novel that won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel. She has to date published more than thirty novels and several comprehensive writing courses. She is currently working on the second book in her Cadence Drake series.

Holly had an ideal childhood for a writer...which is to say, it was filled with foreign countries and exotic terrains, alien cultures, new languages, the occasional earthquake, flood, or civil war, and one story about a bear, which follows:

"So. Back when I was ten years old, my father and I had finished hunting ducks for our dinner and were walking across the tundra in Alaska toward the spot on the river where we'd tied our boat. We had a couple miles to go by boat to get back to the Moravian Children's Home, where we lived.

"My father was carrying the big bag of decoys and the shotgun; I was carrying the small bag of ducks.

"It was getting dark, we could hear the thud, thud, thud of the generator across the tundra, and suddenly he stopped, pointed down to a pie-pan sized indentation in the tundra that was rapidly filling with water, and said, in a calm and steady voice, "That's a bear footprint. From the size of it, it's a grizzly. The fact that the track is filling with water right now means the bear's still around."

"Which got my attention, but not as much as what he said next.


" 'I don't have the gun with me that will kill a bear,' he told me. 'I just have the one that will make him angry. So if we see the bear, I'm going to shoot him so he'll attack me. I want you to run to the river, follow it to the boat, get the boat back home, and tell everyone what happened.'

"The rest of our walk was very quiet. He was, I'm sure, listening for the bear. I was doing my damnedest to make sure that I remembered where the boat was, how to get to it, how to start the pull-cord engine, and how to drive it back home, because I did not want to let him down.

"We were not eaten by a bear that night...but neither is that walk back from our hunt for supper a part of my life I'll ever forget.

"I keep that story in mind as I write. If what I'm putting on paper isn't at least as memorable as having a grizzly stalking my father and me across the tundra while I was carrying a bag of delicious-smelling ducks, it doesn't make my cut."

Cheerfully,
Holly Lisle

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Really good book, September 29, 2011

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Moon & Sun: The Silver Door (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was really good i loved it just as much as the first if not more. I recommend this book to any one who likes fantasy. if you like this book you may like: the lightning thief {or any other in that series or any books by rick Riordan}.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful fantasy; engaging and very well-written, February 16, 2010

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Karissa Eckert "Devourer of all books fantasy" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Moon & Sun: The Silver Door (Hardcover)

This is the second book in the Moon and Sun trilogy (at least I've heard that it's supposed to be a trilogy) by Holly Lisle. It was an excellent addition to the series and is a wonderfully told story.

In the first book we find out that Genna is destined to be the Sunrider. This book starts out with Genna, Dan, Doyati, Catri, and Yarri being tutored in the Sun Wizards language by the very tedious Master Navan. Things quickly change though when Genna and Catri are attacked by a dragon and carried off to the Spire, an ancient stronghold of the human Sun Wizards of old. There Catri and Genna learn more about the humans' past and about the Sun Wizards in general. But will the help the Spire gives be of a benefit or detriment to Genna's path to become a Sunrider?

This was a wonderful book. Lisle has an excellent writing style for telling a good solid fantasy. The characters are well developed and the plot thickens as more characters are thrown into the mix and the humans' situation gets more dire than ever. Much of the book revolves around Catri and Genna exploring the enormous Spire and about what they find out there. Most of this book focuses around the past of the humans and how they came to be slaves to the Kai Lords.

This book was a little more wandering than the last book. In process of exploring the Spire, Genna looses some focus on her Sunrider duties, but that is all part of the story. This book really gave the story a lot more breadth than it had in book 1.

I love Lisle's writing style and her skill in building worlds and characters that are engaging and completely natural feeling. I love that the characters , especially Genna and the Cat, have a sense of humor that occasionally rears its head...this keeps things from ever getting overly serious. Genna is a great character, she is kind yet possess honor,persistence, and a practicality that is admirable. I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to spend more time with Yarri and Doyati, but the additions of Jagan and the Dragon more than made up for the nightlings' absence in this story.

Another great addition to this series, I can't wait to read the next book! This book would appropriate for all ages. If you like the Fablehaven series, Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice), or even Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) I would check out this series.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Silver Door, December 18, 2009

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Rozier - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Moon & Sun: The Silver Door (Hardcover)

In this, the sequel to The Ruby Key, Holly Lisle engages, captivates and otherwise locks her readers into the world of Moon and Sun. Genna - her central character, continues with her companions along a path of challenges that further involve the reader in questions of family, friendships, allegiances and fate.

Holly Lisle's prose possesses a quality of transcendence, that in the mind's eye, crystallize a vision of the world and characters she creates, beyond the words she uses to do so. She makes transparent the hearts and minds of those who's motives clear, react in unique and unexpected ways to circumstances both poignant and suspenseful.

Travel the moonroads with Genna, through taandu tree forests of dark mossy green and beyond the clouds over windswept seas. Explore the magic of The Silver Door. But before you do, make sure you've found The Ruby Key.