The IllMade Mute The Bitterbynde Book 1 Cecilia DartThornton 9780446610803 Books

The IllMade Mute The Bitterbynde Book 1 Cecilia DartThornton 9780446610803 Books
What a gift this book! She has done fantasy and folk fairy literature readers a great service. She has crafted a fascinating and gritty real fantasy world that treats the oldest fairy tales and folk tales as utter reality, and then told her story within her weaving of that reality. I've never seen a similar feat. Yes her language can be heavy-handed from time to time. But it's more often beautiful and and finds it's stride, which happens to be a dance. Such beautiful and poetic descriptions of mundane reality! And such a success, to craft such a world of mystery, and unexpected turns! What a creative mind! We are all lucky to have her and this work of her passion and love.
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The IllMade Mute The Bitterbynde Book 1 Cecilia DartThornton 9780446610803 Books Reviews
This absolutely original and wonderful fantasy novel tells the tale a lost youth who is suffering from amnesia, hideously disfigured by poison, and stuck mute. The poor creature is found half-dead in the wight-haunted forest by an aged crone, who serves in one of the great towers that house the flying horses and serve as docks for the flying windships. It becomes a low servent, ill-treated and ridiculed for its hideous face. When a noble who collects and mistreats "..." servants take an unhealthy interest, it stows away on one of the windships and thus the adventures begin! It encounters pirate attacks, treasure maps, finds and loses friends, encounters countless tricksy wights, learns sign language, and falls in love with handsome ranger, all as it searches desperately for its past and a cure for its cursed muteness and disfigurement. Beautifully written and loaded with adventure!
Aftre reading this magical book for the third time, i am still as in love with it as the first time i read it, when i was 15. This is the book, or the tirology, that first enticed me to read thick fantasy books by the backpack full.
Cecillia Dart-Thorton weaves an elaborate and intensly detailed story of trials and triumphs, loves and loss and of course fantastic adventure. Sleep is for the weak when I'm captured in this page-turner.
I'm off to buy the second part right now, praying that the day may slow down a little so i can avoid work and get caught up in more reading. And thank heavens for kindle, i can read in the dark and without straining my wrists!
I would recomend this book to anyone but those who like fantasy novels would probably enjoy it most.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton's Bitterbynde series reminds me of "The Worm Oroborous" by ER Eddison or "The King of Elfland's Daughter" by Lord Dunsany, in its power to describe a new and dream-like world. Reading "The Ill-Made Mute" was like looking through a series of Aubrey Beardsley drawings---the detail was minute, intense and unforgettable. There was so much description, it almost overwhelmed the plot.
In fact, there isn't much plot. This is a story of a mute, facially-scarred amnesiac who sets out on a journey to find someone with the right kind of magic to heal her. The plot is the journey, or the journey is the plot. Along the way, the ill-made mute interacts with flying horses, flying galleons, an Irishman straight out of a Mike and Pat joke, a treasure cave, unstorms, pirates, King's rangers, and eldritch wights. There is plenty of drama, and wondrous sights to see along the way. Read slowly and savor the rich text. Journey's end is only partially satisfying, but a wonderful sequel has already been published--"The Lady of the Sorrows"---I've already read it and it's even better than "The Ill-Made Mute." The third book of the trilogy, "The Battle of Evernight," is promised for April, 2003.
It's going to be a long wait. Now that I've read the first two books of the Bitterbynde trilogy, it will be very hard to go back to the generic, Robert Jordan, ya da-da, ya da-da, 'the hero slays the dragon, saves the maiden, and finds the ring of eternal spin-offs' type fantasy.
The last time I became so obsessed with a fantasy series was decades ago, with Dune. Or maybe it was the Pern books. Or possibly the Lord of the Rings. Anyhow, I came to the series late, then bought the 2nd and 3rd books before I'd gotten through the 1st. Googled the author and was amazed to discover she wrote all 3 books when she was 16. Went through all 3 books in probably the equivalent of 72 hours, unable to put them down - lost a lot of sleep, captivated and obsessed. Now I'm in the throes of the langothe. (You'll have to read the books to see what the heck that is.)
Warning the books are not for the bestseller crowd, or those who can only deal with linear plots and plain-vanilla narration. They are, however, for the literate, Tolkien-loving, Shakespeare-gobbling, romantic fantasy set. They're unique and magical.
This is not an easy book to lose yourself in to. You have to concentrate to appreciate the author's prose and to give yourself a chance to understand the rich, real world she's created.
But once you take the time, it's beautiful. The writing is elegant and the land extraordinary. This book is like a fairy-tale but the protagonists aren't princesses or beasts - they're people. Some good, some bad, but none all good, nor all bad. They're just human.
This is fantasy at its best - mythical creatures roam and magical storms sweep the land. People, as a matter of course, take precautions, but then just get on with life. We accept the magic in this world because the people do. And at the end of the day, magic doesn't seem to be the focus. This is a story about acceptance - of others, of yourself; about companionship; about the importance and permissibility of dreams. Everyone's allowed to hope for something better. Everyone can reach above her station.
By the time you come out of this story, you care, desperately, for the mute, scarred child who rises above her deformity to become someone who cares, who sees truly when others don't, who loves though she feels she hasn't the right, and who wins friends through her loyalty and her capacity for joy.
I want a happy ending for her. I can't wait to read the rest. I can't wait to be in this world again.
What a gift this book! She has done fantasy and folk fairy literature readers a great service. She has crafted a fascinating and gritty real fantasy world that treats the oldest fairy tales and folk tales as utter reality, and then told her story within her weaving of that reality. I've never seen a similar feat. Yes her language can be heavy-handed from time to time. But it's more often beautiful and and finds it's stride, which happens to be a dance. Such beautiful and poetic descriptions of mundane reality! And such a success, to craft such a world of mystery, and unexpected turns! What a creative mind! We are all lucky to have her and this work of her passion and love.

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