a really excellent fantasy novel | The Raven Ring: A Lyra Novel

My favorite book of Mrs. Wrede's | The Raven Ring: A Lyra Novel | Patricia C. Wrede

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	• The Raven Ring: A Lyra Novel Patricia C. Wrede Tor Books, 1994 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews
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highly recommended

Excellent

I loved the book, the characters were realistic and completly based on people you can like and are amazed by. I loved the fact that the main charater was a girl who was a hugely able person. Most books have men as the warriors, but this one proved that women can be just as adept at anything they try as men can be. I loved that the main characters were not all honourable and that they shaped the story with believable actions. It also showed that people with perfectly good intentions can be as annoying as can be. I rate this five star for excellent characters, believable plot, and overall good writing.

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a really excellent fantasy novel

There's nothing really unique about _The Raven Ring_. It's a simple enough story about a young woman with a supposedly simple mission to complete in an unfamiliar place. She meets friends and enemies alike, and discovers that one of the items she's gone to retrieve is far, far more than it seems.

But if this book isn't strictly unusual in terms of plot or style, it's special because it's really, really good. The level of writing is very impressive for a fantasy novel, and it's perhaps telling that this was Wrede's last high fantasy novel. I'm not sure that she could improve on it (though who knows what she'll come out with next). If you've read the other Lyra books, it's a great addition to the series. If you read this book and enjoy the world, by all means look up the others, which were written much earlier. But there's no doubt that _The Raven Ring_ is the best of the lot, and better than most other fantasy, too. It deserves to be a classic.

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My favorite book of Mrs. Wrede's

I have read almost any book by Patricia Wrede that I can get my hands on and yet this one keeps popping into my mind when I am looking for something to read. I picked this up thinking that since I liked Magic and Malice and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles that I would like this one too, Well I was right and wrong, because I love this book. She is such an inventive author and knows how to creatively put a story together without it seeming like the trite story about a female heroine.

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multi-leveled fun

I like this author anyway, and I think this is her best book. It is a murder mystery, a romance, a comedy of manners, and a good fantasy novel, especially as a wonderful example of fantasy/sci-fi's ever-present theme of "culture shock". It is extremely readable, excitingly fast-paced, has a lovely heroine, and does not falter in the details.

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Still a favorite

I really did fall in love with this book. The characters are just so lovable. Eleret's combat skills and serious personality is something I've always admired and Karvonnen's wit and humour is simply the best. The fighting scenes are also great, especially the last one (I've always seen it in my head perfectly...) Also, it includes a nice bit of romance in it with Eleret being clueless over Daner and Karvonnen's mini rivalry over her. But, it's not the kind of novel that would kill everyone's character to focus on the romance.

The perfect mix of romance, humour, and action make this book strongly reccomended to everyone, all ages.

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Continuing the adventures of Lyra, a mystical land of two moons, the author of Shadow Magic relates the struggles of the humans who struggle to survive there, sharing with the silvery fey people, the elusive forest folk, and the dread Shadow Born.

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