Songspinners

by Sarah Ash

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752805827
• ISBN13: 9780752805825
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.9" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Sarah Ash's best novel to-date

"Songspinners" is a novel set against the epic backdrop of Sarah Ash's expanding fantasy world where her novels "Moths to a Flame", "The Lost Child" and The Tears of Artamon trilogy all take place. The story is one of the entwined fates of three people: Orial Magelonne,a young woman with a musical heritage forbidden to her since her mother's mysterious death; Amaru Khassian, a crippled opera composer fleeing his country pursued by a fanatical religious order; and Acir Korentan, a soldier-priest of that very same religious order who must alternately hunt and protect the composer he is sent after. In the wake of a brewing revolution that crosses international borders and shakes the foundations and beliefs of two very different countries,the three must overcome their own prejudices and disabilites as they draw closer to the truth behind the ancient culture of Songspinners. "Songspinners" is an epic of a stand alone book, wherein Sarah Ash wrangles a cast of interesting characters and creates entire mythologies, countries and cultures with ease. Her characters are by no means two dimensional human beings, and the subjects touched upon in the book are thought-provoking, vast, and socially relevant. "Songspinners" is Ash's second novel, and is a vast departure from her first novel "Moths to Flame" both stylistically and conceptually. There were no points in Songspinners when I was tempted to say "Well, I wish she would have done THIS instead..." as I said sometimes while reading "Moths to a Flame". Personally, this is my favorite novel by Sarah Ash. "Songspinners" even overshadows her very popular Tears of Artamon Trilogy.