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Title | : | The Singer of All Songs (The Chanters of Tremaris #1) |
Author | : | Kate Constable |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
Published | : | March 1st 2005 by Scholastic Paperbacks (first published September 1st 2002) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Magic. Adventure. Romance. Young Adult Fantasy. High Fantasy |
Kate Constable
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.9 | 10005 Users | 398 Reviews
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Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess, tending her bees, singing her ice chantments, and dreaming. But then Calwyn befriends Darrow, a mysterious Outlander who appears inside the Wall and warns of an approaching danger. To help Darrow, to see the world, and perhaps to save it, Calwyn will leave the safety of the Wall for a journey with a man she barely knows--and an adventure as beautiful and dangerous as the music of chantment itself.List Books Supposing The Singer of All Songs (The Chanters of Tremaris #1)
Original Title: | The Singer of All Songs |
ISBN: | 0439554799 (ISBN13: 9780439554794) |
Series: | The Chanters of Tremaris #1 |
Characters: | Calwyn, Darrow, Mica, Tonno, Halasaa |
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If you get the strange feeling that you've already read Kate Constable's first installment of the Tremaris trilogy, it's probably because you've read Garth Nix's Lirael. There is very little original or imaginative in Calwyn's episodic journey to destroy yet another one-dimensional Basic Evil Guy: this novel is not novel. Calwyn, a cloistered novice who has spent her first seventeen years behind a magically maintained ice-wall, plays the gawking spectator on what is basically a tour ofI was looking at the ratings and it seems that the younger the reviewer, the more stars they gave it. Perhaps it is because I have read A LOT of fantasy, but this was just ok for me. I liked the world the author created. It was innovative, but not really fresh. I felt like the places where we wanted a deeper understanding of the world, Constable skipped over what could have been interesting. The societies she created were very two dimensional, as were her characters and their struggles, but for
I listened to the audio version. It was different. As a book that contains music and centered around it, it makes sense why they included chants (that's what they sounded like to me) throughout the book. Most of the time it was a distraction because the narrator continued reading through the chanting. I had to tune out the background music/chanting so I could concentrate on the words. The male chanting was not at all pleasing either. It sounded like someone mumbling. Overall, my experience with
This rating is for the whole series:The Singer of All SongsThe Waterless SeaThe Tenth PowerI enjoyed all three books and had a hard time putting them down, which is why I was awake reading into the wee hours of the morning last night.
This book is more like 4 and a half star, but there was something that bothered in the end. Here goes the riview. I had high hopes for this series. The author is Austrailian and it was a first for me. (it might be odd to be intrigued by a nationality but, come on! it is quite amazing!)It wasn't about vampire, warewolf or any kind magic I've heard of before. It's about people with gifts, chanting the words like a song to bring out the power that they were learned to do from a very young age. I
This is the first book in a young adult fantasy triology by Kate Constable. I read the first two last year before I realized the third book hadn't been written. (Why I usually wait for ALL the books in a series--there are starting to be more exceptions to my usual rule these days.)The third book is now available. It's a story of chanters. Calwyn is an ice chanter and the main character. There are nine power of chantment--the power of tongue, beasts, seeming, winds, iron, becoming, fire, ice, and
3.5 stars. I have slightly complicated feelings about this book. I read it when I was younger, then bought a copy at a used book sale on a whim and reread it. I still enjoyed it, but now that I'm older, I noticed a couple things that I didn't like about it. Some spoilers.GOOD STUFF:I really like the world-building! The idea of magic through song is a really interesting and unique one. The scenes where Calwyn and other characters are using chantment are well-described: it really does feel like a
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