Moonblood is the best of the series yet: For that he has sacrificed the heart of his one true love. For that he is about to marry the well-connected beauty Daylily.
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And for that, once the people of Southlands blame his servant Rose Red for their sufferings under the Dragon, he banishes his most faithful friend to the Wilderlands where a fallen star, enslaved to the goblin king of illusion-woven Arpiar, lies in wait.
Everything except one last journey to find and rescue Rose Red from an otherworldly kingdom which no one has seen for five hundred years. Will Lionheart finally let go of his excuses, and find the courage to lay down his life for another? Characters and places formerly only dimly perceived on the borders of these stories are suddenly pulled into them. Finally, we get the opportunity to adventure through the mysterious Wood Between to other worlds.
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Finally, we see the Knights of Farthestshore adventuring side by side. The imagery is deep with allusions to and reminders of other stories, from the rose-wrought palace of Arpiar that is something like Beauty and the Beast in reverse, to the stone princes at the table of Ragniprava that remind one of the sleepers in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The Wood itself, and the Knights of Farthestshore that journey in it, each of them with his or her own backstory, are strongly reminiscent of The Faerie Queene.
I loved that when redemption came to the characters, it did not come cheap: All of them were very poignant and tender, but none of them took over the main point of the plot, which was the need for redemption, a greater love and a greater service. Not only did this keep the romantic subplots in perspective; it also, I believe, allowed for more unconventional plot development within the romances themselves. To conclude, The Tales of Goldstone Wood are so far a rich, satisfying, and evocative fantasy series with roots in the folklore and fantasy of all Christendom.
So, do I have your interest yet? One of the exciting things about featuring contemporary fiction on my blog is the opportunity to invite the author to come and talk about her books! Anne Elisabeth Stengl was kind enough to answer a few questions for us.
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They feel like they were grown in a rich soil of other stories. What are some of the other stories that the Tales of Goldstone Wood grew from? The Tales of Goldstone Wood sprang from many sources, probably more than I can name. And snippets of Shakespeare. Many of them are unconscious sources as well.
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And, of course, many readers have drawn parallels to C. My goal when I set out to write this series was to create a world that gave readers a strong sense of familiarity. I wanted them to feel as though they had somehow encountered this world before, though the stories themselves are brand new. A solid grounding in classic literature and mythology serves to make the world of Goldstone Wood feel more real. I love the very wise and edifying way you handle the romance subplots in your stories.
In including romantic elements in your plots, how and where do you draw the line between the helpful and the unhelpful?
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You are so right Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I believe it comes out at the end of July. Especially noteworthy as you have US ex-services Phil Klay on your list, at a time when US literature is the latest industry to benefit from the invasion. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'm already planning an addendum to this post. Thanks for the fabulous list.
I've added too many to my own TBR list. I'd also like to add, Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins, here debut is fantastic.
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This is such a great list and I've added many title to my TBR list. I hadn't heard of Praying Drunk and I'm especially excited about it. Sorry for the typo - "I've added many titles" to my TBR list. Consider this your pretty much exhaustive, pantry-stocking, be-all, end-all list of short story collections, fortified with 8 essential vitamins and minerals and guaranteed to keep you reading well into , if you're as slow a reader as I am case in point: Now that we're halfway through the year, I thought I'd take a look at this year's harvest of short story collections.
What started as a simple task--scanning my bookshelves and scouring publishers' catalogs for new and upcoming releases--soon turned Sisyphean. Every time I thought I had the boulder at the top of the hill, I'd find another overlooked title and the search started to roll back on me. Which leads me to conclude: I posted my list at Book Riot a couple of weeks ago; since then, it's more than doubled in size--and I'm sure the roster below is missing several worthy titles feel free to let me know about them in the comments section.
I confined myself to U. Otherwise, it would have been a long post about short fiction. Posted by David Abrams at June 14, Anonymous June 14, at 3: Loran Smith June 14, at 8: Larry Dark June 14, at 9: Anonymous June 16, at 9: David Abrams June 16, at 6: Jessica M June 16, at 2: