I started Hero's Song while waiting around for...I think for Wayne to get done with class so I could take him home. It was slow to start with, and I didn't touch the book again for well over a week. But the next time I picked it up, I finished in two days. I admit it wasn't as well executed as another Edith Pattou book Wayne and I both loved, called East. But it was a fun world and I enjoyed some of the characters. What's not to like about a girl disguised as a boy who fools everyone she meets until she joins the journey, and then proceeds to fool only the main character. Hehehe. But she's spunky, and I like spunky girls in my stories, so it's all good.
The main character, Collun, is a gardener who is torn from the only land he knows to find and rescue his sister. His friend and bard, Talisen, is not to be left behind on the journey, and other allies join them along the way. It is a fantasy genre book, so mysterious beasts attack and injure the group in mysterious ways. But they have help, and power of their own, of course. Secrets abound, and while I guessed most of the secrets, I was surprised by who was in the know and what they do with the new-found knowledge when secrets are revealed.
It was a fun read, even if it's not to be one of the books I love. I'm still putting the sequel on hold at the library. :)
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