Speaking as a huge Patricia McKillip fan, I have to agree with Dan Blum about Winter Rose. I did like it, but it's rather minor and probably the least interesting of her recent work. Alphabet of Thorn is indeed quite good; my favorite of her recent books is Song for the Basilisk, which manages to be political in a way her books usually aren't. ("Political" meaning that politics matter and form part of the plot within the created world, not that there's any direct relevance to contemporary, real-world politics.)
-- Peter Erwin
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Date: 2005-07-21 02:25 pm (UTC)