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Prospero's Children Siegel, Jan
United Kingdom, 06 December 1999 Voyager 1999 0-00-225836-6 / 9780002258364 First Edition Softcover Good
Review Fern and Will, the children of a feckless art dealer, find themselves sharing the remote farmhouse he has inherited with his current, and sinister, mistress. Something snuffles outside; a stone in the garden, which bears an odd resemblance to a passing tramp, moves in the night; a wolfish dog befriends them. Dreams and sleepwalking and the most remarkable videotape ever watched provide 16-year-old Fern with evidence that the world is not the controllable, rational place she thought it was--and that her own future is to be altogether more remarkable, and full of pain and wisdom, than she has expected. Jan Siegel has taken the material of a hundred good children's fantasies and woven a story which hovers, like her heroine, on the brink of being fully adult, with the visionary power that often comes from inhabiting the threshold between states. Her handling of shopworn questions--the paradoxes of time, the price of souls and the sinking of Atlantis--is as fresh and remarkable as fantasy gets; this impressive first novel is a classic in the making, and, it is to be hoped, the debut of a brilliant career. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Proving that a breath of imagination can rekindle the embers of a spent theme, Siegel enlivens this schematically familiar fantasy with a new twist on the old legend of Atlantis. The sunken island is the former homeland of the mystically minded kind that 16-year-old Fern Capel and her younger brother, Will, encounter when they move to an inherited family house in the Yorkshire countryside. Left to themselves by their loving but oblivious dad, they soon discover that their home is a magnet for sorceresses, shapeshifters, unicorns and god-possessed vessels, all of whom survived the island's cataclysmic collapse into the sea eons before and are drawn by a potent Atlantean talisman--a magic key that unlocks the door between life and death--kept hidden on the premises. When a scheming opportunist misuses the key and accidentally ruptures the barrier separating past and present, feisty Fern, whose maturation draws her own latent magic powers forth, must retrieve it from the antediluvian past it has disappeared into--just as the island is starting to crumble. Much of the novel is struck from the rigid template for modern teenage quest fantasies, but Siegel distinguishes her story once she shifts bearings to the island setting. Though it recapitulates much of the tale already told, this Atlantean interlude is captivating for its vivid depiction of an ancient civilization where exotic beauty, decadent corruption and magical good and evil all commingle. "Our story is over--for a while," says one of the fey folk in the epilogue, and this serviceable debut will have readers anticipating the sequel it portends. (May)
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The Dragon Charmer Siegel, Jan
Voyager 2000 0-00-225838-2 / 9780002258388 Paperback Good
From Publishers Weekly In this highly imaginative and darkly charming adult fantasy, the sequel to 2000's Prospero's Children, some dozen years have elapsed since the horrifying events of the earlier novel. Fernanda Capel, now a young woman, is vainly attempting to leave the Gift behind and abandon her heritage of witchcraft. In pursuit of a normal life, she even accepts a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't love. But the supernatural keeps intruding with signs and portents she chooses to ignore. Then the night before her wedding, while driving home from an impromptu bachelorette party, Fern falls into a mysterious coma. She winds up in hospital, but her soul finds itself imprisoned in the roots of a tree in purgatory, where Fern takes the opportunity to learn some strange secrets from her captors. Once soul and body are reunited, she must go to the rescue of her sober, level-headed best friend, Gaynor Mobberly, as well as prevent an ancient terror from being released into the real world. British author Siegel neatly weaves the supernatural into the ordinary, while her supporting characters are a delight: Ragginbone, a centuries-old wizard who appears to be a derelict; invisible Bodachin, a Scottish house goblin; and Moonspittle, who demonstrates what goes on in those curio shops that are never open. Those who like an entertaining escape from reality should be pleased. (July 3)Forecast: With a five-city author tour and author appearances at major SF conventions this summer, plus a sample chapter included in the mass-market edition of Prospero's Children (June), this title should make a run up genre bestseller lists. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Booklist Since the traumatic events in Prospero's Children (2000), Fern has rejected her extraordinary gift. But when she returns to the family's remote Yorkshire house to wed an older man she likes but doesn't love, the ancient evil forces that want to control the gift awaken. Drawn from her body by Morgus, Fern's spirit is taken outside of time and within the roots of the Tree of Life. As her brother, Will, her best friend, Gaynor, and the hoary Ragginbone search for her, she craftily learns as much as possible from Morgus. Finally, with the help of Morgus' misshapen son, Kaliban, she plucks the head of the last dragon charmer from where it hangs on the Tree of Life, hoping that it can charm the last dragon and help her save the world from the evil Azmordis. Siegel draws on ancient Scottish lore, Arthurian legend, and the myth of Atlantis in another enigmatic, preternatural narrative that ambles in and outside of time, between past and present, dream and reality, and world and underworld. Sally Estes Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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