The Blue Sword

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Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published 2000 by Puffin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-130975-0
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OCLC Number:
1028853119

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Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Free Hillfolk. When Corlath, the Hillfolk King sees her for the first time, he is shaken--for he can tell that she is something more than she appears to be. He will soon realize what Harry has never guessed: She is to become Harimad-sol, King's rider, and carry the Blue Sword. Gonturan, which no woman has wielded since the legendary Lady Aerin, generations past... --back cover

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reviewed The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Damar #1)

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When I started reading it was interesting, the world building is important for new landscapes or cultures or how the magic works, but when I reached half the book and it just didn't seem to start... I suspected the worst. And then suddenly I finished and... Nothing really happens. Nothing. It's very plain.
I stumbled upon it because it's supposed to be an old school classic fantasy book. And I understand that in the 80's to have important women in books (The MC and most of the myths revolve around women) was something daring. But... it has just so many wrong points, technically speaking, that don't make this a good book.