When I re-read The Grey King in 2010, it turned out I had forgotten the chunk of the plot that is most meaningful to me.
I hadn't thought about it, but I can absolutely see Owen Davies as very much your type of character. <3
it might just have become a literary-folkloric motif.
Oh, I can definitely see it as such! Though I think it would have worked better for me in a context that was either less grand-scale, or used the children protagonists' skills more intrinsically (though this does go along with the kids being frequently sidelined at key moments in this series). To be fair to the book, however, I was much more interested in the debate and John Rowlands' very human choices than in the mystical/magical battle surrounding it, and perhaps the author was too.
What series are you thinking of trying next?
I'm still deciding! The ones that first came to mind were those I've read or reread relatively recently, like the Ben January books or Amber Chronicles, but part of what made this so much fun was that I hadn't read these books since I was much younger and so it was familiar and yet not ... so I might do something like that again. Another boxed set I have from around the same time are the Madeline L'Engle ones, so perhaps those, or Prydain, or something in that general vein. This was so completely unlike anything I'm writing these days that it made a nice break from always reading through a slightly analytical lens.
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I hadn't thought about it, but I can absolutely see Owen Davies as very much your type of character. <3
it might just have become a literary-folkloric motif.
Oh, I can definitely see it as such! Though I think it would have worked better for me in a context that was either less grand-scale, or used the children protagonists' skills more intrinsically (though this does go along with the kids being frequently sidelined at key moments in this series). To be fair to the book, however, I was much more interested in the debate and John Rowlands' very human choices than in the mystical/magical battle surrounding it, and perhaps the author was too.
What series are you thinking of trying next?
I'm still deciding! The ones that first came to mind were those I've read or reread relatively recently, like the Ben January books or Amber Chronicles, but part of what made this so much fun was that I hadn't read these books since I was much younger and so it was familiar and yet not ... so I might do something like that again. Another boxed set I have from around the same time are the Madeline L'Engle ones, so perhaps those, or Prydain, or something in that general vein. This was so completely unlike anything I'm writing these days that it made a nice break from always reading through a slightly analytical lens.