[.ca] Changeling Sea (ISBN 0141312629)

magical:
this was a great story. i love this author, she just has a certain style that brings whatever she says to another level. this said, the story isn't perfect. the major relationships between the main character and those around her aren't very strong, not strong enough anyways. at the end, not to spoil it, but she asks someone to come back for her, but the relationship between them wasn't strong enough for her to ask that of him... or at least we the readers weren't privy to it. they don't have to be ridiculously close or anything, the perceived distance between the characters is fine, but the draw between characters must make sense to the reader. if the author spent more time fleshing out relationships i think the story would've been better, because the relationships are very compelling, we just know too little of them. peri says she enjoyed certain people's company because they needed her. unless she is so weak and needy that someone recognizing her existence would make her go crazy, which i don't think she was, there is a part of the story the readers don't know about, or have to fabricate for themselves. so in a way it felt like she was grasping at straws, and the introductions of some characters, namely the workers at the inn, were kind of awkward. criticism aside, it was a wonderful story. the plot was well thought out and kept me interested. i thought the author did a great job of characterizing the sea. Kir was a great emphasis for this because he was half of the sea himself, so we had the sea both as itself and humanized in Kir. periwinkle was ok, not the strongest heroine but compelling in her own way. i liked her name though, periwinkle, you get few characters with such whimsical names. it was a great story though. it was short, i read it in a couple of hours, and it left me feeling kind of whimsical .

Wonderful and Magical, but a little anticlimax:
After all the mysterious and marvelous and occasionally sad events, I thought that the end was a bit- well, I thought I missed something. So I read it over a couple of times. And I found out I had not missed anything. The ending simply left me hanging. I wanted to know more. And the romance between the magician and Peri is a little obtuse... You only notice in the last little few chapters of the book. Other than that, it was a marvelous book, well written. It kept me floating, and I didn't sink below the realm of fantasy into the real world a single bit. (Pardon, that was the best analogy I could think up.) It was a fantasy world that was truly a fantasy world, and the text was appropriately dreamlike. And even though it was funny, it was funny in a good kind of way, not a way that would destroy the atmospere. I will read more of her books, and a sincerely recommend this one.

I was hexed!!:
Just simply by opening the first page, you won't be able to leave the book alone. From an unlikely heroine to the deep feeling weaved through the story, it makes you appreciate what a high fantasy story is really about. The Changeling Sea is definitely not a simple seem-too-simple story!!

Everyone loves a periwinkle:
This is my favorite of Patricia's books (I have only read two of her books). I loved the main and supporting characters in this amazing book they had strong details in their characters. Also this book had an original plot that no one can resist and it is a good quick read! I loved it!!

Best One Yet!!!:
I've fully read 6 of McKillip's other books and this is definitely the best one yet. It was very difficult to put down, but I made myself do it, because I didn't want the story to end. The dreamlike quality of it was appropriately intoxicating, similar to Winter Rose.