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Summary: Judging the Blue sword
Review: Nadiya age 11:A girl named harry crewe-I know her name doesn't seem noble or important- she starts out as a orphan girl who has no part in life. But she lives in Damar, a desert country which lived the homelanders and the secretive magical hillfolk.
The hillfolk king Corlath sees Harry crewe. He is amused and shocked he can she behind the veil that she is more then she appears to be. He will soon be shot in the eyes and realize what Harry has never thought of: that she is going to be harimad-sol, Kings rider, and carry the one and only blue sword which no woman has done since the legendary lady Aerin, generations past.
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Summary: You just cant put this book down!
Review: I have always loved Robin Mckinly books and the Blue Sword was no exception. The book starts off with Corlath the leader of the Hill People going over to the house where Harry Crew a young girl was living. He went to the house to ask for help ti defeat the Northeners. Unfortunatly Corlath does not get the help he wants but he did see Harry and new she had to go back with him and his men , so he kidnapped her and took her to the Hill People. With the Hill People she learns many things like how to fight and ride a horse like Hill People do. Harry Crew also becomes a Kings Rider and is very happy. But than the threat of the Northerners grows. Harry knows she has to do somthing to help the Hill People that have become her friends the only question is what.
If you want a book you cant put down you realy should read the Blue Sword. It is a book people of all ages will enjoy.
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Summary: Magnificent, Fantastic, Greatttttt!
Review: It is the best book of all times, my tears are brimming in my eyes as I read it. I highly recommend it to everyone! The story is about an orphan girl called Harry Crewe, she went to live with the Homelanders as what her brother wished. Then one night she was kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolks' king as something told him that this girl was special. Later it was known that Harry is to posses the Blue Sword, which first belong to Aerin: The Dragon-Killer,
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Summary: The Blue Sword
Review: Enchanting and simply wonderful, no other book can compare. This novel is inspirational, a must read for the asprining fantasy writer, and a must read for those who just like to read the genre. Harimad-sol is beautifully characterised, and is truly believable. You must get your hands on this book, it's even better than Harry Potter!
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Summary: An entertaining fantasy novel
Review: If your in the mood for a suspenseful fantasy novel, the Blue Sword is for you. After hearing so much good about this book I knew I had to read it and I was not disappointed. The Blue Sword tells the story of recently orphaned Harry Crewe who lives a very slow life with the outlanders in a country called Damar. She can't explain it but she feels a strange connection to the desert. Everything she knows changes when she is kidnapped by Corlath, the king of the mysterious and magical Hillfolk with whom the Outlanders share Damar with. Harry is confused by the Hillfolk and their strange customs and language but she soon realizes that she wasn't merely kidnapped on a whim. She has magic in her blood, a very powerful magic that connects her to the mysterious blue sword which hasn't been wielded by a woman since the great lady Aerin. Harry (or Hari or Harimad-Sol as she is later known as) is a wonderful strong character that you'll love to watch grow and develop from the very beginning. I recommend this book for all ages to fans of Tamora Pierce, Dawn Cook, or any other work of Robin McKinley.
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Summary: A time tested favorite
Review: I first read this book when I was in high school, over eight years ago, and I still take it out and read it every few months. Every central character seems to grow in some ay throught the book. The female lead goes from being somewhat of a lost child to being a queen and a warrior. Her brother goes from being an uptight man afraid of who he might be to embracing that side of him and finding happiness. The characters are wonderful, you really want to root for them. This book manages to have magic, action/adventure and romance while still remaining suitable for readers of any age. In my opinion, if you like fantasy books, you have to read this book and it's companion The Hero and the Crown.
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Summary: What came first....The Chicken or the Egg?
Review: When I was in 6th grade one of our trade books was "The Hero and the Crown" which quickly became my favorite book of all time (quite worn now, may need a new copy soon.) When I hit the high school, and was in my all fantasy all the time stage, I hunted down "The Blue Sword." I decided it deserved a place on my book shelf once more.I wouldn't rank "The Blue Sword" up as high as "The Hero and the Crown" (HATC rates far higher than 5 stars...there is no rating for ir in my mind) yet I wouldn't call it disapointing. It can drag on at parts, and, although Harry was characterized beautifly, i would have loved more details on that golden-eyed king, and a certain mage who most certainly deserved a larger role in this book (hey, i'm a girl...what can i say?) But the story itself was as wonderful as can be, Harry showed strength and intelligence with just the right amount of additude and spirit. You have to love Mckinley's female characters...fiesty, but far from your archetypical perfect pretty pretty princess, or maiden in distress. Their faults and fears are so real, so personal... All things considered you can read the books (hero and the crown and the blue sword) in any order, neither of them give details that would give much away in the other. The Hero and the Crown takes place before Blue sword, but the Blue Sword introduces the Hero and the Crown a tad with references to characters and brief history...nothing you won't understand without reading "The Hero and the Crown". Your Pick, really....Hero and the Crown is the Better of the Two in my mind, but you really have to read both to get the full effect. (edited version of older review)
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Summary: How can I call it just a "book"?
Review: Just thinking about this book makes me cry. I read this incredible story once (How can I call it just a book? "Book" implies pages and words, the story needs neither.) and I read it again and again until I had memorised parts of it, and Hari/Harry was as near to my heart as my most intimate friends. I don't know which day in grade six I picked this story off my library shelves, opened the front cover, casually read the binding and took it home, but it inspired me to pick up a writing book, sit down and write. The story that grew from my imagination was, at first, very similar to Harry's tale; a desert, mountains, Royalty, swords and horses and a magic that was woven into the land deeper than any other short of the epic of all fantasy, Tolkein. But as I learnt and grew up, it changed and I no longer needed to write or copy stories, the words fell of my pen onto the paper and the story and the words became my own story and my own characters and my own magic. Five years later, my story is still changing. Five years later I am still reading The Blue Sword again and again, and Harry always scowls at her glass of orange juice every time I open it. If I saw that scowl, I would recognise it. Sometimes you want to describe something incredibly beautiful in a poem or story, and you can't. However you write the words, they always look wrong for what you feel. I cannot describe this story with words I have the capabilities to write down.
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Summary: Highly Recomended!
Review: I am only in the eight grade and just finished this book not even a week ago. This book will always be in the back of my mind as I go through my own mysterious life. Watching how this wry girl starts off as an outsider in her own world and being taken to the Hillfolk with their king, Corlath and finding her place among them amazes me as I can relate to the inside story. I'm sure any reader could agree, Robin McKinley knows how to write! *I also read Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragonriders of Pern' series which I couldn't put down either and if you like her, you'd like Lady Anne!*
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Summary: ' The Blue Sword ' by Robin McKinley
Review: ' The Blue Sword ', by Robin McKinley, is a wonderful sequel to her first dazzling novel, ' The Hero and the Crown.' In ' The Blue Sword ', Harry Crewe is an Outlander orphan that has moved to Damar. She lives on the outskirts of what the Outlanders call Daria, or Damar, with a nobleman and woman. Then her whole life changes when Corlath, King of the Free Hillfolk of Damar, steals her away to train her as a King's Rider, and to become one of the true Damarians. And when the two of them discover the kelar, or magic, in her blood, she will become the heroine who will save Damar and both races of her people.
' The Blue Sword ' takes place in Damar, a magical country. I will not say a "make-believe" country because in the mind and the heart, this enthralling saga is real.
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