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| Original Title: | The Hero and the Crown |
| ISBN: | 0441328091 (ISBN13: 9780441328093) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Damar #2 |
| Characters: | Aerin |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (1985), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee (1985), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1986) |
Robin McKinley
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 4.21 | 49142 Users | 2219 Reviews
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Aerin could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it.It was the story of her mother, the witchwoman who enspelled the king into marrying her, to get an heir that would rule Damar; and it was told that she turned her face to the wall and died of despair when she found she had borne a daughter instead of a son.
Aerin was that daughter.
But there was more of the story yet to be told; Aerin's destiny was greater than even she had dreamed--for she was to be the true hero who would wield the power of the Blue Sword...
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| Title | : | The Hero and the Crown (Damar #2) |
| Author | : | Robin McKinley |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 1987 by Ace (first published October 15th 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Dragons. Adventure. Romance. Magic |
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Ratings: 4.21 From 49142 Users | 2219 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books The Hero and the Crown (Damar #2)
When I was a kid, I frequented two areas of the library: the children's section and the adult fiction section. The young adult shelves and the nonfiction shelves might as well have been made of glass for all I noticed them.One year when I was in my early teens, the family was getting ready to go on the dreaded yearly camping trip. "Dreaded" because it meant a week in the outdoors, with no books. Well, almost no books: Mom's rule was that we each could take twoonly two??so we spent hours dawdlingLike most of Robin McKinleys work, The Hero and the Crown is very hard to classify. Its surface is high fantasycliché high fantasy, evenbut its written like psychologically-driven realistic fiction. Our setting is the rather desolate kingdom of Damar, about which we know little except:1). The heirs to the throne are called sola (male) or sol (female). It should really be the other way around, or at least that would make it easier to follow for those of us who speak Latin.2). The Damarians have
I got this book when it was first published, in hardcover.At the time, 'The Blue Sword' (to which this is a prequel) was one of my most-beloved books - and, I have to admit, that at the time, I didn't feel the 'The Hero and the Crown' quite measured up. I liked it - but just not quite as much. (It's not like I didn't read it several times, though.)Re-reading, years later, I understand why I felt the way I did - but I also kind of disagree with my youthful opinion. This is a wonderful book. It's
young princess who feels like a misfit, teaches herself to fight dragons, befriends animals left&right, finds love twice, overcomes a villain from her family's past, follows her known duty rather than pursue unknown emotion...it's really not as dry as I'm summarizing.beautifully and dreamily written. I remember reading this and wanting to fight dragons. a big surprise when I re-read years later and still enjoyed it, still found the heroine a sympathetic character. good messages about not
Basic Plot: Aerin is the mostly-left-to-her-own-devices, unconventional daughter of the king. After discovering a secret formula that can make her fireproof, she begins hunting dragons, which takes her on a journey to save the kingdom.I bought a paperback of this book when I was in elementary school through one of those school book order programs (I was ADDICTED to them), and it was the first Robin McKinley book I ever read. It is now so battered and worn that I have actually been thinking about
This is the third Robin McKinley book I've read, and I've come to the conclusion that I just don't like her. I feel like this makes me a bad person--I mean, nobody doesn't like Robin McKinley--but although she writes beautifully about richly imagined worlds, I never like her characters.The Hero and the Crown was no exception. Actually I loved the first half of this book, with the story of the princess Aerin who has never felt like she fit in with the royal court. She's determined to find her
Before she went crazy, Robin McKinley wrote some of the most awesome young adult fantasy out there. Her heroines were smart and plucky, with a bit of tasty pathos to keep things interesting. Aerin, the main character of HATC, is a dragon-slayer in training, while remaining decidedly introverted and bookish and not quite the most coordinated chick in town. She also has a love triangle (with SEX!)involving her second cousin and an immortal wizard dude. Needless to say, she was quite the hero for
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