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The unlikely hero is a fantasy fiction staple, from The Hobbit's Bilbo Baggins to George R. R. Martin's dwarf antihero, Tyrion Lannister. Alama richly develops the concept. Jereth, a wandering former priest encounters and befriends an elegant beauty with a child's mind, Trenara, and her abused serving girl, Hwyn, in ghost-ridden Kelgarran Hall. Hwyn is there to steal the Eye of Night, a pocket-sized stone that contains the egg of something wonderful and terrible. She isn't sure just what the egg's hatching will bring, but she must bear it through miles of troubled wilderness to Larioneth. Jereth and Hwyn are young people with pain in their pasts, who resolutely pursue their tasks while learning to trust one another. Those they meet and the stories they hear occasionally lighten their hunger, thirst, and fear, and they are granted love before their journey's end. Martin's fans and lovers of Lois McMaster Bujold's Curse of Chalion (2001) should enjoy this tale that is unencumbered by "high" language and full of everyday human eccentricity. Roberta Johnson
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PRAISE FOR THE EYE OF NIGHT:
One has to go back to the works of R.A. Lafferty to find another fantasy in which an apocalypse means not the end of everything or the begnning of a harsh and cruel world, but rather the beginning of new heavens and new earth. The Eye of the Night is an ingenious and exhilirating story with an indomitable woman protagonist.
-Andrew Greeley, author of The Bishop in the West Wing
"In her debut novel, Ms. Alama delivers crisp dialogue, wonderful writing full of pathos and surprises, and clearly presents a complicated theology integral to the story."
--Romantic Times
"an enjoyable and pleasantly different fantasy."
--Locus Magazine
"A very good, engaging tale...a masterful first novel."
--Rendezvous
"Martin's fans and lovers of Lois McMaster Bujold's CURSE OF CHALION should enjoy this tale...full of everyday human eccentricity."
--Booklist
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The unlikely hero is a fantasy fiction staple, from The Hobbit's Bilbo Baggins to George R. R. Martin's dwarf antihero, Tyrion Lannister. Alama richly develops the concept. Jereth, a wandering former priest encounters and befriends an elegant beauty with a child's mind, Trenara, and her abused serving girl, Hwyn, in ghost-ridden Kelgarran Hall. Hwyn is there to steal the Eye of Night, a pocket-sized stone that contains the egg of something wonderful and terrible. She isn't sure just what the egg's hatching will bring, but she must bear it through miles of troubled wilderness to Larioneth. Jereth and Hwyn are young people with pain in their pasts, who resolutely pursue their tasks while learning to trust one another. Those they meet and the stories they hear occasionally lighten their hunger, thirst, and fear, and they are granted love before their journey's end. Martin's fans and lovers of Lois McMaster Bujold's Curse of Chalion (2001) should enjoy this tale that is unencumbered by "high" language and full of everyday human eccentricity. Roberta Johnson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
PRAISE FOR THE EYE OF NIGHT:
One has to go back to the works of R.A. Lafferty to find another fantasy in which an apocalypse means not the end of everything or the begnning of a harsh and cruel world, but rather the beginning of new heavens and new earth. The Eye of the Night is an ingenious and exhilirating story with an indomitable woman protagonist.
-Andrew Greeley, author of The Bishop in the West Wing
"In her debut novel, Ms. Alama delivers crisp dialogue, wonderful writing full of pathos and surprises, and clearly presents a complicated theology integral to the story."
--Romantic Times
"an enjoyable and pleasantly different fantasy."
--Locus Magazine
"A very good, engaging tale...a masterful first novel."
--Rendezvous
"Martin's fans and lovers of Lois McMaster Bujold's CURSE OF CHALION should enjoy this tale...full of everyday human eccentricity."
--Booklist
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