The Blue Sword

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Summary: How many times have I read it?
Review: I believe I read the Hero and the Crown first, but both books stand alone. I found the heroine, Harry Crewe, to be somebody I could relate to. When she is forced to move to a land she knows nothing about, she begins to realize how much she love it. She must deal with many losses at once and overcomes them. Then she must become a sword-weilding, horse-riding hero to a land she finds herself forever attached to by a magic that she never knew she had. If you've read this book less than five times, then give it to someone who will.

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Summary: I enjoyed this book...so cool it was
Review: i read this book several years ago so I cant't really remember all the details.... but I know I really liked it and wouldn't think twice about reading it again or recommending to others. Harry was a great role model for girls, and that book was filled with adventure and romance...If you've read it already then tyr The Hero and the Crown ( same author) you'll love it ...

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Summary: Love, magic, and adventure: what more could we want?
Review: While this isn't my favorite Robin McKinley book, I recommend it in full. McKinley uses her magic writing style yet again to capture us and bring us into the story from the first page. While lighter in style than The Hero and the Crown, it still brings us the magic of Damar but with a twist. Now the setting involves a more recent structure. Two cultures are involved, the Hills people from Damar who still use swords and the new Homelanders who carry guns. Great things are bound to happen when the two overlap! I really recommend this book!

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Summary: Just really, really good!!
Review: Robin McKinley is an excellent book. The Blue Sword is a great story with action and romance and just a lot of good stuff all stuck in. Both the books in this series are so good. You MUST read them!!~Sunn

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Summary: This is the perfect book to give to anyone who is horse-mad.
Review: This is the book that all 13-year old horse lovers should have, but don't reject it as an adult because of its Young Adult label. It is a gripping story about a young woman's journey from "outsider" to belonging, a tale dressed in a mixture of Walter Farley and Rudyard Kipling. The author makes no false moves; the story is seamless, engrossing, and thoroughly satisfying. If you like adventure stories, fantasy, horses, or cats, you will like this book; I have given it to 10-year olds and 40-year olds, and everyone loves it

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Summary: Best McKinley book yet!
Review: I thought this book, even though The Hero and the Crown was very good, and I equally love all of Robin McKinley's books, I thought that The Blue Sword was the best. It's the kind of book that draws you in. She finds out her past, and future... She becomes a bridge between two countries, and she is the heir of the blue sword all in one adventure. You've got to read this book.

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Summary: Tried and true without being mediocre
Review: While this book is intended as a sequel to 'The Hero and the Crown' (even though it was written first) I would definitely recommend reading this one beforehand. While 'The Blue Sword' is a fun book, featuring vivid characterizations and a totally original, modern nineteenth-century setting, it lacks the burning intensity of the earlier book (or the later...or whatever). Harry`s sweet, easygoing personality makes for a completely different atmosphere than was created with the tortured Aerin; any similarities between the two appear only later. Anyway, you`ll enjoy this more knowing there are greater things coming

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Summary: Lonely woman finds love, magic and big cats!
Review: I first read this when I was about fourteen. I'm twenty-seven now, and it's still one of my favourite books! Harry's father dies, and she is shipped off to live with her soldier brother overseas. She has trouble fitting into the social setting, which is made more tricky as the natives of the area kidnap her! They have asked the Homelanders for help in fighting an enemy. This help is not forth-coming, so Harry is taken. It emerges that some of the natives of Damar have a kind of magic, called Kelar, which gives them extra strength and second sight. The king of Damar, Corlath, has been told by his Kelar that Harry is important. It does not take long for Harry to adapt to life with the Damarians, almost as though she has lived with them before. She learns their language, and their ways of riding and fighting. She is befriended by a huge hunting cat, Narknon, and before long becomes a part of the Damarian society. She enters a fighting contest and wins, becoming a King's Rider, which puts her in the front line of the battle against the demonic enemy. Harry has not forgotten her people, and fears for them. In her desire to help everyone, she runs away from Corlath, with whom she is now in love, and finds herself fighting an out-numbered battle against the evil enemy. I'll leave you to find out what happens next. I love this book for its detailed descriptions of the Land that McKinley has created, and the marvellous human relationships. It's fantasy, adventure, romance, travel, animal fiction all rolled into one!!

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Summary: This book was and is mind-blower!!!!!
Review: When I first heard of the book I thought it was just another one of those books in the Chronicles of Narnia. Dull, boring, just plain stupid!!!!! But it turned out to be a joy ride. Even though "The Hero and the Crown" is the book that tells you about the Blue Sword, there is no need to read the book before "The Blue Sword". In "The Blue Sword" there are not many times that the text even tells you about "The Hero and the Crown". Anyway, if you are into suspence, action, drama, and fantasy, THIS IS YOUR BOOK!!!!

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Summary: The Two "Worlds" this Book Holds Really Grow on You.
Review: A woman named Harry, a product of two different worlds - one very much like our own and another, Daria, from the "Old" days of horses, magic and all-to-real legends, is kidnapped from her new home and is thrown into the ways of Daria. There she learns to love the Darian people and she eventually leads them to conquer an evil ambitious demon-wizard that would kill them all. It starts a little slow but as you are drawn into the magic of Daria, it becomes a very enjoyable read