O Greenest Branch! (Book I of Water!)

by Gael Baudino and Alex Brown

Book Overview

A tiny kingdom, frought with internal conflicts and three centuries of drought, embraces the promise of relief by diplomats from the Righteous States of America, and three special people find their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451454499
• ISBN13: 9780451454492
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Roc Fantasy
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

...And ne'er the twain shall meet.

That's how I usually end up describing how I believe people will feel about Baudino's "Water!" trilogy. Either you love it, or you hate it...and ne'er...well, you get it.So why did I love it? Mostly it was the challenge. There's *so* much going on in these books that sometimes I just had to sit passive and let the stream of her words carry me on. Other times I was an active participant in the adventure able to use the very simple formula needed for the exact length of swinging rope (this never failed to make me chuckle).I loved Sari and the entire discourse of religions...for the Naians weren't perfect, though I really wanted them to be. I think in the end the reason I loved these books is because they were so *interesting*...something to see and think about on nearly every page.For those that enjoy a good, active read where the author challenges you in many ways, I would certainly recomend this and the rest of the series.

Read it with an open mind.

This is not the place to look for traditional epic fantasy. I was actually put off at first by the constant changing in style and script, but when I was stranded with no other book, this one got picked back up again. I'm very glad I did. Once I accepted the book for what it was, not what it's genre said it should be, I was enchanted. The characters are not heros of common ilk, but something so much more and intensly flawed. It might not be what you're looking for, but if you want something new and creative, give it a shot. It's a lot of fun.