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In Caiseal Mor's bestselling THE CIRCLE AND THE CROSS, tales of the Faerie realm, passed down from generation to generation, had become the stuff of legend. But there was a time when the Faerie folk, the Tautha De Danaan and the Fir-Bolg, still walked the earth as mortals and called their homeland Innisfail. In a small barren area to the west of Innisfail, Brocan, the last king of the Fir-Bolg, is locked in bitter dispute with King Cecht of the Danaans. His once powerful people are gradually abandoning their time-honoured traditions, beguiled by the ways of the Danaans. Driven by a hatred generations old, King Brocan, stubbornly resists all change, determined to preserve the ancient ways. But his struggles are destined to be in vain. Sailing for Innisfail's bountiful shores are invaders with weapons and skills so powerful that nor even the Druids' magical songs can keep them at bay: the Gaedhals. The Druid Assembly has ordered the Fir-Bolg to unite with the Danaans against the coming of these invaders. Dalan, the Brehon, is sent to enforce their edict. But this learned Druid is beginning to suspect that a threat greater still than the marauding foreigners hangs over the land. A powerful and determined adversary has been roused from lethargy to descend on the people of Innisfail - a force conceived in evil and set upon revenge.
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Caiseal Mor was born in Australia of Irish parents and grew up surrounded by the traditions of storytelling and music that are so much a part of the Gaelic culture. As a child he learned to play the harp, a skill that had been passed down in his family over many generations. Caiseal has a degree in Performing Arts and has worked as an actor, a teacher and as a musician. Caiseal's family is from Youghal, County Cork.
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I really wanted to like this book, but in the end just could not warm to it.
The characters don't seem to have much of a unique personality, and most of what personality there is, is often quite unpleasant. This is something I do tend to find difficult in many books :if you have read other books with unlikeable protagonists and enjoyed them, you might enjoy this one more than me.
The early Irish setting does have some charm, but I found the plot disjointed: there are a lot of viewpoint characters, which is hard for any writer to carry off, and the plot skips about. After a while I found I just didn't care about what was going to happen next. The writing is rather unpolished and this means that there was less of a feeling of 'place and time' than I was hoping for.
There is some talent here, so have allowed two stars but in the end, it's not enough to carry off the book as a finished work: one could make allowances if it were a first novel, but it isn't. I was left with the urge to edit it severely rather than to read the next one.
The characters don't seem to have much of a unique personality, and most of what personality there is, is often quite unpleasant. This is something I do tend to find difficult in many books :if you have read other books with unlikeable protagonists and enjoyed them, you might enjoy this one more than me.
The early Irish setting does have some charm, but I found the plot disjointed: there are a lot of viewpoint characters, which is hard for any writer to carry off, and the plot skips about. After a while I found I just didn't care about what was going to happen next. The writing is rather unpolished and this means that there was less of a feeling of 'place and time' than I was hoping for.
There is some talent here, so have allowed two stars but in the end, it's not enough to carry off the book as a finished work: one could make allowances if it were a first novel, but it isn't. I was left with the urge to edit it severely rather than to read the next one.
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