Then in the second trip everyone (except Corleu, because he was only a first-book decoy protagonist) goes on a field trip with dragons which are also mythologically destined to mythologically threaten the mythological powers of Nyx and Meguet's family somehow even though they live many thousands of miles away and possibly in an entirely different time period, ALSO UNCLEAR. However, it takes a little while to realize this because The Sorceress and the Cygnet starts out with a decoy protagonist named Corleu who accidentally becomes entrapped in a complex mythological plot engineered by sinister star constellations which Meguet's mythologically convenient powers are destined to stop, or else bring to fruition? It's very beautiful and numinous and also VERY UNCLEAR. Nyx is one of the protagonists of the duology the other is her cousin Meguet, a loyal and taciturn warrior who learns over the course of the story that she has mythologically convenient powers. Nyx is, however, a fantastic character - the cool-headed, knowledge-obsessed, semi-amoral heir to a Holding who starts out the books living in a swamp dissecting small birds in pursuit of KNOWLEDGE and POWER and earning incredibly dubious looks from everybody she knows. beautiful.įor the record, the sorceress Nyx probably does not look like the cover of that book, nor is she possessed of a giant pet flamingo. That was at least my second time reading the trilogy, probably my third, and I carefully documented the plot on DW, and I still have no idea what actually happens in Riddle-Master of Hed except that there are a lot of riddles in it and the main character comes from Hed.Ĭygnet is actually two books - The Sorceress and the Cygnet and The Cygnet and the Firebird, and HOLY WOW, I just got distracted by the 80s-ness of the cover in that first Goodreads link. The last time I read McKillip was in - according to my records - 2010, when I reread the entire Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy.
I can't tell whether Cygnet is more McKillip-y than most McKillip or just a totally standard amount of McKillip, because I can never remember anything that happens in McKillips for more than a month or two after I've read the McKillip in question. Genarti lent me her copy of Patricia McKillip's Cygnet like a year ago, which I have finally gotten around to reading.
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