- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Crowswing Books; New edition edition (30 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905100000
- ISBN-13: 978-1905100002
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,490,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lucy Masters, Hatchard's Piccadilly children's buyer
'Outstanding fiction of the highest calibre.'
Book and Magazine Collector, July 2004 edition
'Part of the new wave of children's authors ... highly collectable.'
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This review was first published in The Small Press Review. I received a free copy for review. I have had no personal contact with the author.
This novella is marketed for older teenagers, yet the story is satisfying for an adult audience as well. Princess Lia-Va has succeeded to the throne in the traditional way by killing her father, a man obsessed with power and money. Disgusted, she walks out of the palace and boards a ship to Brafindor.
The root of the title is a fragment given up by each living creature as it dies, which can be used by another to relive those last moments. Lia-Va has been collecting these addictively for years, with an uncanny knack of knowing when death is about to strike. But the death of her cousin is the one that haunts her--he was her only friend, and she was in some ways complicit in what occurred.
The world which she inhabits is beautifully drawn, with a good balance of description and action. Islan, her guide and protector is unsatisfyingly two dimensional, though as an archetype he is adequate for a teen novel. Mieville and Moorcock echo through the writing perhaps a little too obviously; Wright would do well to step away from these influences and take flight on his own.
This novella is marketed for older teenagers, yet the story is satisfying for an adult audience as well. Princess Lia-Va has succeeded to the throne in the traditional way by killing her father, a man obsessed with power and money. Disgusted, she walks out of the palace and boards a ship to Brafindor.
The root of the title is a fragment given up by each living creature as it dies, which can be used by another to relive those last moments. Lia-Va has been collecting these addictively for years, with an uncanny knack of knowing when death is about to strike. But the death of her cousin is the one that haunts her--he was her only friend, and she was in some ways complicit in what occurred.
The world which she inhabits is beautifully drawn, with a good balance of description and action. Islan, her guide and protector is unsatisfyingly two dimensional, though as an archetype he is adequate for a teen novel. Mieville and Moorcock echo through the writing perhaps a little too obviously; Wright would do well to step away from these influences and take flight on his own.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is self published rubbish. You need to understand that CrowSwing books is Sean Wright. So are the five star reviewers.
The writing in the book is so bad, it is almost funny. Peurile fantasy with some x rated scenes that you'd have to subscribe to special TV channels to watch. And apparently this is for kids.
Well, it certainly isn't for me.
The writing in the book is so bad, it is almost funny. Peurile fantasy with some x rated scenes that you'd have to subscribe to special TV channels to watch. And apparently this is for kids.
Well, it certainly isn't for me.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This so does not rock. Sean Wright should ignore the bad press he gets via the JJ books (well, ‘accurate’, I should say) and concentrate on the creative writing classes. This is a dreadful. Typical of Wight it is chocka with errors and sub-standard prose. In fact, so bored with writing does he appear that a description of one character (the for da kidz referenced ‘Mathers’, oh dear) is repeated, word-for-word, on page 55 and on page 94. This an error you’d trip over in the JJ book, if you bothered to read them, which you shouldn’t.
There’s a real need for an editor here, but as Wright is a self-published (that’s “vanity” to real people) author then the only editor is Wright. And he’s no editor. He’s no author either, of course.
This is supposed to be for young adults, like me. Well, a few pointers then: 1) get an editor 2) that squiggly red line under the words? It means there’s a typo, go back and correct them 3) that squiggly green line under the words? It means there’s a grammar suggestion. Your PC screen must glow like the Emerald City 4) I don’t need profanities and drug references to be entertained, Mr Wright. There’s relatively few in Jane Eyre, do try and remember that.
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