a wonderful book that is both quiet and powerful.” “Patricia McKillip creates a world of magic and beauty. “Intimate, gorgeous, quiet and deep, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld remains as resonant as ever.” “An extraordinary book, and McKillip deserves all the praise she received for creating such a masterful, brave, intricately crafted universe. Max Gladstone, author of the Hugo Award-winning Craft Sequence series I read it in a down moment, and it filled me with joy and awe at the power of love, writing, and fantasy.” Reading Eld felt like finding a missing star: it’s always been there, shaping space, and reading it made so many other books make sense. It’s truly great, concentrated, thoughtful, vicious, exalted fantasy, and everyone should read it, and it seems criminal to me that I haven’t until now. I grew up in a boarding school, so I can’t say how great it is without profanity. “Patricia McKillip’s Forgotten Beasts of Eld is stunning. Bruce Coville, author of the Dragon Chronicles Forty years later I still cherish the experience. With its rich and lyric prose, its wondrous mix of characters (beasts included!), and its thoroughly enchanted world it was unlike anything I had read to that point. “Some books stay with you. It’s been over forty years now since I first read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and succumbed to its enchantments. Wise, author of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories

McKillip offers up a powerful character full of passion, determination, obsession, and love.” “Before Daenerys was Mother of Dragons, Sybel commanded beasts of all kinds. Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate If I had to pick a desert island book, it would be this one.”

This magical moonlit fantasy has dignity and romance, heart-stopping suspense, adventure, richness of concept and language and-perhaps rarest of all in romantic fantasy-a sly sense of humor.” “Like the Ring trilogy or the Earthsea books. Reedsy, Go on a Magical Adventure with the 60 Best Fantasy Books of All Time “With its elegant language and lovingly rendered heroine, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has won the love of readers young and old alike - it’s a book that feels richer with every rereading.” Sybel must use her talent - but will she win, or lose, herself? The novel won the World Fantasy Award and the writing is simply beautiful.” It follows Sybel, a woman with strange powers who collects fabulous beasts, whose power draws the attention of forces battling each other out in the world. “McKillip’s strange, enchanting stand-alone fantasy The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has been reissued.

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