Posts Tagged ‘evil’
The Farthest Shore – Reviewing Classics
Atheneum Books, 1972
Fantasy
ISBN: 141650964X
272 Pages
Synopsis
Magic is disappearing from the outer edges of the world of Earth Sea, and it’s soon apparent that a great darkness is overtaking the land. People are hurtled into hopeless and despair, and many are losing their lives in consecutive drug trips where they seek to find the master who can grant eternal life, only to soon die from brain damage and starvation. …
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Skin Hunger
Atheneum, 2007
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0689840942
368 pages
National Book Award Honor Book
Synopsis
Two stories take place throughout the text, and at first, are seemingly unrelated. Sadima, who has the ability to understand and communicate with animals through her thoughts, joins with two men who are attempting to resurrect the old knowledge of magic, which has been outlawed for many years. A few generations in the future, a boy named Hahp has been exiled by his wealthy and disapproving father to live and be taught at the school of wizardry. …
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