[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

had to read this for the mother/daughter bookclub and started it relunctantly... one page in, I predicted daughter would not like it (hubby asked why? I answered she wouldn't care for a 'lord of the rings' type fantasy tale) but really I was just betraying my own bias against the fantasy genre.

by the end of the first chapter - I was hooked. great tale. great setting. great allegory. and there's at least another 4 books in the series. so plenty more for daughter to read.

and hey - the author is/was a dad that told this tale to his daughters at bedtime... maybe there's a future career there for imaginative hubby.