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From the author of "Moonheart" comes a modern classic of urban myth and magic. Cat Midhir has made a name for herself as the author of many popular fantasy novels. When a thief steals Cat's mysterious Otherworld--a real place where she wandered at night with bright lords and the horned woman--she cannot write and becomes trapped in the everyday world. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An amazing tale..very dark, Sep 3 2003

By	C. A Baker (Santa Rosa CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Yarrow (Paperback)

This was my first De Lint book way back in the 1980's, it is still one of his best to me alongside Moonheart and Memory & Dream.
De lint has a darkness in some of his best books, I'm not horror fan but his works have just enough magic and beauty to not read like a horror book. But they do have a deep and frightening darkness...Caitlin's enemy, the creature that steals her dreams is a brutal monster and there are some very scary scenes in this book.
But in the end the entire tale is soo engrossing I can't put it down. Sadly many of his more recent books lack that depth, or maybe I'm just older and less inclined to be taken in by them..and yet I can still read this book and other older De Lint and be drawn in as before.....
What De Lint does when he is truly inspired can only be called true magic...if you want that kind fo magic read this, Moonheart and Memory and Dream...but be warned they are not for children nor readers who do not like some truly, deeply, dark evil in their books.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Scattered and empty, May 9 2003

By	bonsai chicken (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yarrow (Paperback)

Caitlin Midhir is a popular author of fantasy novels, but unlike most writers she actually has an answer to the frequently-asked question, "where do you get your ideas?" When she sleeps, Cat travels to a place she calls Otherworld, where the characters in her stories are real, and so she makes her living off the tales she brings back. That is, until a creature called Lysistratus -- a psychic vampire who feeds on dreams -- is attracted by the vivid nature of Cat's and steals them away. She may lose more than a source of income as a result.

YARROW's story is scattered among a cast that is larger than it needs to be, giving background on those characters that has little relevance, and generating subplots that never come to fruition, while the book's antagonist goes sadly underdeveloped. As a result, events that are important have little impact. The story doesn't really get off the ground until the final few chapters and even then, barely so. In the end, nothing particularly interesting happens. This isn't just a light read; it's hardly there at all.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Another good yarn from Charles de Lint, April 20 2003

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This review is from: Yarrow (Paperback)

The book starts with an interesting question that forms the basis of the plot: Where do writers get their ideas? For the heroine, Cat Midhir, those ideas come from her dreams. So what happens when the dreams stop? That's what "Yarrow" is all about.

I did find the first part a little bit slow. I thought there were too many scene shifts, and introductions to a lot of characters who turned out to be little more than scenery in the end. I felt that these minor characters were developed almost at the expense of some of the other characters who should have been given more space. Case in point: Kothlen. I would have liked to see his character developed more, even in flashbacks, so that when Cat loses him, we don't have to be told how awful she feels; we should be able to feel it for ourselves.

Other than that, de Lint has woven a wonderful story. I liked Tiddy Mun, Cat's little gnome friend, and the villain, Lysistratus, was deliciously formidable. I highly recommend this book to fans of Charles de Lint who may not have read this earlier piece of urban fantasy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My first and amongst my favorites of de Lint!
Yarrow was the first de Lint I read, several years ago, and it took me many years to find a copy of my own. Read more

Published on Nov 14 2001 by Julia Rampke

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful...
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