Catherynne M. Valente
Paperback | Pages: 516 pages Rating: 4.39 | 2627 Users | 282 Reviews
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| Original Title: | In the Cities of Coin and Spice |
| ISBN: | 055338404X (ISBN13: 9780553384048) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Orphan's Tales #2 |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2008), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2008) |
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Catherynne M. Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden. Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in a new book of Orphan’s Tales—an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday…. Her name and origins are unknown, but the endless tales inked upon this orphan’s eyelids weave a spell over all who listen to her read her secret history. And who can resist the stories she tells? From the Lake of the Dead and the City of Marrow to the artists who remain behind in a ghost city of spice, here are stories of hedgehog warriors and winged skeletons, loyal leopards and sparrow calligraphers. Nothing is too fantastic, anything can happen, but you’ll never guess what comes next in these intimately linked adventures of firebirds and djinn, singing manticores, mutilated unicorns, and women made entirely of glass and gears. Graced with the magical illustrations of Michael Kaluta, In the Cities of Coins and Spice is a book of dreams and wonders unlike any you’ve ever encountered. Open it anywhere and you will fall under its spell. For here the story never ends and the magic is only beginning….Describe Appertaining To Books In the Cities of Coin and Spice (The Orphan's Tales #2)
| Title | : | In the Cities of Coin and Spice (The Orphan's Tales #2) |
| Author | : | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 516 pages |
| Published | : | October 30th 2007 by Spectra (first published January 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Short Stories |
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Ratings: 4.39 From 2627 Users | 282 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books In the Cities of Coin and Spice (The Orphan's Tales #2)
What I enjoyed most out of this book was The Tale of the Hungry Lord, The Tale of the Tiger Harp, and Cats version of Unicorns. Ones enjoyment of this series depends on how well one enjoys being told countless tales of fantasy and magic. If you cannot get enough of that ish, this is the series for you. One small gripe I have with Cats writing style is how impolite walking away must be. If not describing a passerby but an interlocutor, the main characters usually always have an exchange with theThis one is a treasure to keep and re-read, which is likewise true of the first book in the set, In the Night Garden. Valente's reworking of tales taken from just about everywhereShe is deeply knowledgeable about myths, fairy tales, and folklore!is fresh, lively, vivid, and completely her own. It is typical of my reading of Valente (and I've read a lot, but not yet all, of her work) that I never think, "Oh, I've seen this before," because I haven't. She began as a poet and the poet shines
When this book came out, I went straight out and bought both it and the first half of the pair, "In the Night Garden," because I'd read the first one and loved it so much that I wanted to have them both for always. Valente's prose is gorgeous - rich, velvety, three-dimensonal, and painfully honest. And the stories-within-stories-within-stories connect beautifully with each other, and with stories and characters from the first book. The characters feel like real people, and she makes you care
Alone in a garden lives a young girl filled with stories written on her eyelids in the blackest of ink. Her tales are so enchanting that she has drawn in the son of the sultan to listen to her every night, despite the fact that his visit are forbidden by his older sister, Dinarzad. Only this time around, the stories are a little darker, and life at the palace becomes more complex when a terrified Dinarzad becomes engaged to a wealthy man.In The Cities of Coin and Spice is the second and final
The girl has more than one set of stories. But we cannot truly talk of them just yet. Stories are scared creatures. If you even as much as whisper their secrets before they are ready to share them, they disappear into the night. Let's just say that the girl goes on to tell the boy of another orphan who ends up begging at a dock. There, she hears the tales of a net-weaver named Sigrid, who tells her of the tales of her journey with the wolves and how they brought her to their land of many towers.
Valente's previous novel left me dazzled by her creativity and deft handling of a story within a story within a story writing style.The sequel brings more of the same, but it lost me somewhere along the way. Her creativity is at times just too danged bizarre for my tastes. Often her creatures/creations seemed like a random mish mash of ideas and parts, like a monster hastily created by a overzealous D&D player from my role playing days in the 80s: "Yeah, well . . . you see in front of you a
Less of a sequel, more of a continuation. The first book never really ended, any more than this one has a solid, new beginning. Just as beautiful and lyrical and absorbing as the first. I will need to read both of them about six more times before I catch everything, all the overlaps and twinings and interweaves. And I will fall in love every time.
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