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Title: The Forbidden Land (Witches of Eileanan) by Kate Forsyth ISBN: 0-451-45828-1 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Short and sweet and a rockling good time!
Comment: If a book was a kiss, this would be a breif, unexpected peck on the lips with perfect timing that just leaves you perfectly content. 'The Forbidden Land', 4th book in The Witches of Eileanan Series by Kate Forsyth, proves to be more worthy of 5 stars than its prequel 'The Cursed Towers', even when the novel is lacking the main character of the series!! The Forbidden Land is mostly geared at Finn the Cat, who has grown up into an incredibley complex young woman starving for freedom from the dismal life of being a dowager banprionnsa of the MacRurach clan. Finn's seeking and climbing skills are desperatley needed by the Righ to recover a 'treasure' in the independent part of Eileanan known as The Bright Lands. A band of gypsy like people known as jongluers, who are close to the Righ, bring her to the task and set out to sea to seek the mysterious 'treasure'. At first I was a little skeptic about the novel being taken from the lesser characters' perspective, with a complete lacking of the heroine Isabeau. But by the first 3 chapters I pretty much forgot all about Isabeau being so consummed in Finn and the new story! It was a short novel, but captured a lot of Kate Forsyth's quality points in her writing skills, including how she can use words to show the reader and not just tell the reader. Her use of cultures (among other things) really bring this out. This is the first book in the series where you really get to know more about the Tirsoillerean people and their dogmatic ways. Understanding the enemy and having empathy for them is key to making a belivable enemy and such a good fantasy series and Kate Forsyth does this brilliantly. And what is an adventure at sea without some Fairgean, eh!? This new extension of the story cleans up some things and adds hope to the Fairgean wars. ~~Miranda
Rating: 4
Summary: Finn!?!
Comment: As others have already said, I was too, disappointed to not be reading further of Isabeau and the Firemaker. Which is the main reason for only four stars and not five. Although this portion of the series only remotely deals with Lachlan and Iseult, it does answer many questions about Finn and the League of the Healing Hand. However, the book does follow/parallel the same plotline of uniting Eileanan under the banner of peace that Lachlan and Iseult have been struggling to obtain for the last three books. Can't wait to read Skull, inorder to get back to the twins and Isabeau!
As an anthropologist and pagan, I was highly impressed with Forsyth's development of the religious differences between those of the pagan tradition (polythiestic) and those of a Jewdeo-Christian type tradition (monothiestic). I have been overwhelmed with her display of research and thoughtfulness. From the research of euro-pagan belief and traditions, to what the effect of having two moons would do to the high/low tides of the oceans, to the cultures of the spine of the world and those of the coven, to the different beliefs of monothiestic and polythiestic religions and how the people of these religions would interact with eachother. Praise to Kate Forsyth for puting more thought into her novels than many authors today; the planning here with Eileanan, is remenicent of Tolkin's planning and thought through Middle-Earth. (I don't mean to imply that this is equivalent to Middle-Earth, because they are in two entirely separate classes of fantasy/fiction.)
I highly recomend the entire series of Eileanan!
Rating: 5
Summary: Finn the Cat..
Comment: This was a great side story. It really helped you get to know Finn better. It also went a little more indepth of why Dide acts the way he does. I feel like these characters are my friends. I don't ever want to part with them. It's such a good read!
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Title: The Witches of Eileanan (Witches of Eileanan) by Kate Forsyth ISBN: 0451456890 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shadows and Light by Anne Bishop ISBN: 0451458990 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Pillars of the World by Anne Bishop ISBN: 0451458508 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The House of Gaian by Anne Bishop ISBN: 0451459423 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood/Heir to the Shadows/Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop ISBN: 0451529014 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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