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Knot Garden (Hardcover)

de Gabriel King (Author)
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There must have been some suspense for Gabriel King while awaiting Richard Adams' verdict on King's earlier book The Wild Road. After all, Adams wrote the definitive animal-as-protagonist novel in Watership Down , and King's use of feline heroes is in similar vein. But to those who have read King's assured and charming fantasies, Adams' wholehearted recommendation comes as no surprise. All the magical atmosphere that made the earlier books such a delight are present in The Knot Garden. Here, the contrast between the human and feline characters is brilliantly sustained, but the real achievement lies in how anthropomorphic cuteness is always kept rigorously at bay: although cat lovers may pick up these books, others will find them equally pleasurable, as the King novels are too intelligent to ever fall into Disneyisms.

In the quiet hamlet of Ashmore, life is tranquil and beautiful. Anna Prescott is recovering from a broken affair, and finds Ashmore the perfect place to de-stress. But Anna is unwittingly to become the instrument of chaos for the village. For Ashmore is actually at an intersection of the Wild Roads, a mystical area that exists in a time and dimension limbo. The cats who are masters of the highway are charged with fathoming the mysteries of the energies unleashed by human beings in the village. And as massive danger looms, Hawkweed the Dreamcatcher and his apprentice Orlando find themselves forced to restore the equilibrium that Anna's has destroyed.

Although King's human characters are drawn with sympathy and intelligence, it's the cannily realised feline protagonists who really compel the reader's attention. The resourceful Hawkweed has all the richness and roundedness one could wish for, while Orlando, always a little out of his depth, is the perfect foil. --Barry Forshaw --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.



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"Gabriel King transports us to a magical, secret world of breathtaking suspense. I loved "The Knot Garden,"" -- Barbara Erskine
"It's brilliant: read it!" -- "Cosmopolitan" --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Weird... but good., Avril 21 2003
Par Amy (London, UK) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Knot Garden (Paperback)
If you liked The Wild Road and The Golden Cat then you may or may not enjoy Gabriel King's third novel. It's a lot darker, but the main difference is that it has some human characters. It doesn't follow on from the fist two stories, although you might recognise one or two characters - I'm not giving anything away though! It follows Anna Prescott, who has swapped city life for the peace and quiet of the rural village Ashmore, only to discover that this seemingly innocent village isn't what it seems. Meanwhile, her cat Orlando inherits the title (or burden) of Dreamcatcher of Ashmore, and becomes involved in a struggle to save Ashmore's wild roads from evil.
It's a very well-written book, with an intriguing storyline and some brilliant descriptions. I would say it was a fantasy book, but nothing like the epic adventure that was The Wild Road. This book is more subtle and mysterious, but all the same it has a dramatic and exciting end.
One disappointment was that none of the characters seemed particularly likeable. Maybe I'm being unfair because I don't think it quite matched up to The Wild Road, but they mostly seemed selfish and uncaring.
Overall, though, if you're looking for a gripping, exciting book (not the kind of book you can just read on the train!) then I would thoroughly recommend that you give this a go.
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