Now that I'm done with Jack, I've gone back to Patricia A. McKillip. I was re-reading one of her books before the Jack teen books and now I'm starting on a new one of hers called The Bards of Bone Plain.
What I like about McKillip's books is the feeling of being lost in her fantastical worlds which is like being lost in a dream. I dream a lot and wake up sometimes feeling as if I haven't slept at all; the dreams are so active. Her dreamlike worlds always involve a huge aspect of nature which really appeals to me. Like in Winter Rose or The Book of Atrix Wolfe - upon meeting the Queen of the Wood with a crown of antlers and eyes that you stare into and see nothing or nature scenes, you try to talk or scream and leaves come out of your own mouth. So magical, lyrical. And I like the fact that these woodland people look like animals in disguise and they don't care anything about the mortal world. They're quite indifferent to it. At least, the Queen is. And yet, sometimes they mate with humans and produce offspring that carry the magic that pulls them to discover the realm they don't know about. Interesting...
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