Anne Bishop: World of the Fae series

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Sometimes, when you read a new author, you are disappointed. Sometimes, you're pleased. and sometimes, you wonder why the hell you hadn't found out about her earlier.

I think I first read about Anne Bishop in sauscony's book journal, sausconys_books. And based on this recommendation, I put some of her novels on my wishlist, and for Christmas, I received Pillars of the World, the first of Bishop's World of the Fae series.

And I am delighted with it, and very much looking forward to reading the rest of the series, and other of Bishop's books. she writes well, and she's taken some standard themes and sources of fantasy and done something very interesting with them.

In some ways, Bishop's conceptualisations of elves is reminiscent of Gael Baudino's elves in Gossamer Axe - more like the elves in Tam Lin than in Tolkien - and her treatment of the distinctions between elves and witches made me think of another of Baudino's books - Strands of Starlight.

A new author on my shelves, and one I'm delighted to welcome there.

Comments

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

I rather enjoyed Pillars of the World when I read it, though I haven't got around to the sequel yet. Don't like Baudino's books much, apart from Gossamer Axe.