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Title: Chalice
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Author: Robin McKinley
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Review of Chalice

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Comments for Chalice

• Posted on 2010-02-26
  lovely book, a grown-up fairy tale
  
  This is my third McKinley book (Beauty and Deerskin are the others) and now I must have them all. No, Chalice is not incredibly deep, but the two main characters are vivid and likable - and believable. McKinley does a good job of world-building without dragging the plot and pace down; the whole thing seemed quite, quite real. I went right out and bought a jar of honey :)
  
  As a parent, I am always on the look out for books that are intelligent, well-written, and without sex, obscenities, or excessive violence (and no preachiness either!) This is one of those books that I can recommend to readers from nine to ninety. Miles and miles above the Twilight books - buy this for your daughters (and yourself) instead.
  
  Always a pleasure to discover a good author with a backlist!
  
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• Posted on 2010-02-13
  Great book!
  
  Absolutely love the book. A great new story from McKinley that returns to the magical storytelling of Beauty and The Blue Sword.
  
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• Posted on 2010-01-17
  Robin does it again
  
  Once again Robin McKinley proves that she is one of, if not the best fantasy writers of our time. She has the ability of using her writing in an almost lyrical and rhythmic fashion, weaving the fantastical into the fabric of her extremely relatable stories so that they some how seem to be truths we've always known. Chalice is one of my favorites of hers, and I can't wait to see what she has in store for us next.
  
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• Posted on 2009-11-03
  Richly imagined, entirely unique
  
  McKinley has been one of my favorite authors since I was a teenager. I was thrilled to see a new book from her, and in the same mystical vein as some of her earlier works. What a lovely story. I checked this out from the library at first, but after reading it realized I wanted to own it.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-20
  A really good read if you have the attentionspan
  
  This is a good book, it truely is, BUT... it is confusing at times. I notice that a lot of people are complaining about the flashbacks, and such... I agree they're confusing, but how I read it, its like reading someone's thoughts as they are doing something else... She's working as Chalice, but when she gets a moment's peace, she thinks about how she got there. Its not meant to be a clean, this is the beginning, this is the plot, this is what's going on, this is the resolution, and this is the end... Its all mixed and once you get to the very end... you get it. You get what it was all about. Its like finishing a very complex puzzle. It leaves you feeling like you accomplished something, figuring out why everything ended the way it did. I'm personally hoping there's going to be a second book! I want to come back to these characters, and learn more about them. Yeh, we don't really learn much this go around, but its supposed to be like that, they're in choas, so the book is in choas.
  And how many people think Marisol's favorite colour is yellow? Heh.
  
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