"Fabulous fantasy"
In the mountains live wild satyricon, fairies with horns
and hoofs instead of feet. Living among them is a female
outcast who has human feet and no horn. She captures a
flying winged horse and escapes to the home of Lewen, an
apprentice witch and his family who tend to her injuries.
They name her Rhiannon and decide that she should be taken
to the city of Lucescere to the Tower of Two Moons to be
tested for any power she might have. They travel with a caravan of witches' apprentices but
when they find the body of Connor A Yeoman of the Guard,
they race to the capital to report the murder. Rhiannon
doesn't volunteer the information that it was her arrow
that killed the man but because she has his possessions
she falls under suspicion. They travel to Fettercain
Valley where the dead walk and children are snatched from
their homes and killed. The laird,Malvern MacFerris
invites the tired troupe to stay at his haunted castle but
the evil that resides within the walls threatens their
lives. It is up to Rhiannon and any power she may have to
rescue her friends and break the malevolence that surround
them. Book one of Rhiannon's Ride is a fabulous fantasy where
magic is taken for granted and the people acknowledge and
grant equal rights to species straight out of mythology.
The hero turns from a feral girl into a caring woman
willing to risk her life to save those she has come to
care about. The Highlands of medieval Scotland are the
basis for TOWER OF RAVEN and Kate Forsyth proves once more
that she is a master of creating a mythical world based on
an actual bygone era. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 4, 2005
SummaryBestselling author Kate Forsyth's mesmerizing return to
the magical land of Eileanan.
Condemned for lacking the horns so prized by her people,
One-Horn's daughter must escape by riding one of the
legendary flying horses to freedom-if she can stay on its
back long enough. But to save a land where the dead walk
and ghosts haunt the living, this strange, feral girl-
renamed Rhiannon, the rider no one can catch-must convince
the human apprentice witches she meets to trust the word
of a wild, half-human girl.
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