Patricia A. McKillip
Hardcover | Pages: 277 pages Rating: 3.99 | 2413 Users | 252 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Bell at Sealey Head |
| ISBN: | 0441016308 (ISBN13: 9780441016303) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2009) |
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Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous crows and glassy-eyed knights and a trapped princess and an uncertain doom; the world of a castle, a castle in a book. Dream a dream of spells, two wizards and a wood witch and her daughter, and a strange bell that tolls from nowhere each night; dream a dream of a little romance, sweet and pure. A book about books, about the wonder of reading, about readers and their voyages and writers and their trials and victories. A book that loves books. The theme: the power of stories. A motif: what are the eyes saying, what sort of house exists behind those windows, look to the eyes. The prose: refined, delicate and lovely. The feel: wispy and evanescent. The result: it was like a nap in the park on a sunny, breezy day, a nap full of little dreams, all these little connected dreams within one enchanting dream. I imagine I was smiling throughout this happy dream; I woke from it still smiling.Describe Epithetical Books The Bell at Sealey Head
| Title | : | The Bell at Sealey Head |
| Author | : | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2008 by Ace Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 2413 Users | 252 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books The Bell at Sealey Head
Ordinary and wealthy families mingle and earn a living in a small lovely village overlooking the ocean. Life moves slowly and smoothly in predictable rhythms - at least, it does for most of the people living there. A few of the inhabitants are aware that something is off in the small community. A few have seen things which they cannot talk about. Every night at sunset the sound of a mournful bell rings out - no one knows why or where it comes from, but it has rung through generations of birthsA sweet little slip of a book about a house in a tiny seaside town, and pantry doors that open to the house in another world under a spell, and an innkeeper who loves books, and country romances, and a bell ringing every day at sunset that only the people who listen can hear.Pretty. This book is partly about rituals lighting candles, getting married to the proper person, a bell that rings at the same time every day and how important it is to be aware of the rules youre following. I read most
The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip was okay. I liked it, but it seemed to be lacking something--probably a better plot. It all seemed to have been solved rather quickly and the book doesn't leave much of an impression. The residents of Sealey Head are haunted by a bell that rings every evening just as the sun goes down. The bell has been heard for years and no one knows its true origin. One day, a scholar comes to town to investigate the bell and strange events begin to happen.Meh. I
Patricia McKillip is one of a short list of authors whose books I will buy without having read them before. Although this was not my favorite of her books (my favorites include Winter Rose and its companion novel Solstice Wood, and I love her Riddle-Master of Hed series), I enjoyed the story. McKillip does a wonderful job creating vivid settings and interweaving magic with mundane details (which is somehow so much more convincing than much of the wizardry one reads about). I felt like this novel
As always with Patricia A. McKillip, this is a gorgeous read, more poetry than prose, and filled with fanciful, lovely seaside imagery. Lighter than some of her other books, it skips along as frothy and light as seafoam dancing on top of the rolling waves 🌊In the small coastal town of Sealey Head, nothing seems to change. But every night at sunset a mournful, melancholy bell tolls - but the bell is invisible, thought to belong to a foundered ship if thought of at all. Some never hear it, others
A delightful and magical read. As she so often does McKillip evokes the sea.
There's not much of a feeling of peril or huge things at stake and the final battle is something of an anticlimax in Patricia A. McKillip's The Bell at Sealey Head, but the book was a pleasant, atmospheric read in often poetic language populated by characters I was interested in. Like most of her books, The Bell at Sealey Head uses magic, finding yourself, and the power of words as her subjects, but here we also have people stuck in miserable ruts because it seems easier and less dangerous than
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