Necklace of Fallen Stars Hilgartner YA Fantasy Novel 1st Edition Michael Hague

Description: When Kaela, youngest daughter of the King of Visin, defies her father and runs away, the king sends a Fytrian wizard to bring her home. What distinguishes Beth Hilgartner's Princess Kaela from hoards of other sixteen year old, rebellious, runaway princesses is the quality and quantity of the stories she tells throughout the novel while fleeing from her oppressive father.Storytelling is Kaela's gift; not a magical, convenient one like telekinesis or shapeshifting, but one that, like Scheherazade's, allows her to save her own life and freedom in a dangerous situation. With her story, she also rescues a young minstrel named Kippen, gaining a travel companion and ally against the unscrupulus wizard sent to fetch her home. Escaping to the neighboring country of Cymyl, she poses as a simple storyteller, captivating a diverse audience with her magical tales.But they are not just stories. More personal than Scheherazade's, Kaela's stories, while entertaining and well told, are also thoughtful explorations and subtle refractions of her own preoccupations. The relationship between the frame story and its embedded stories is intriguingly complex. Cruel kings, corrupt wizards and jealous lovers parade through her stories in an increasingly close relationship to her external reality. Kaela's final, most personal tale, "A Necklace of Fallen Stars," can only be ended by the actions of the two people involved in telling and listening to the story.All of the stories are unique in tone, intent, and subject matter and are compulsively readable in themselves and as reflections of Kaela's tale. A Necklace of Fallen Stars proves to be an extremely intelligent and thought provoking novel that, in its quiet wisdom and layered complexity, provides a perfect antidote to more conventional blockbuster fantasies.

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