She studied illustration at Grace College and English literature at Campbell University. When she's not writing, she enjoys Shakespeare, opera, and tea, and studies piano, painting, and pastry baking.
Anne Elisabeth Stengl makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, Rohan, a passel of cats, and one long-suffering dog.
Her novels HEARTLESS, VEILED ROSE, and DRAGONWITCH have each been honored with a Christy Award, and STARFLOWER was voted winner of the 2013 Clive Staples Award. She is the author of the TALES OF GOLDSTONE WOOD, which currently includes seven novels and two novellas, with plenty more works due to release over the next few years.
And this, I believe, is a part of what makes the Tales of Goldstone Woods, and Shadow Hand, such beautiful, fascinating reads.Anne Elisabeth Stengl makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, Rohan, a passel of cats, and one long-suffering dog. Likewise, fantasy is the most strange and fantastical when it is rooted in truth and has its foundation in reality. A lie is strongest when it latches onto a strand of truth. The most cutting jests bear the edge of truth. Can’t we all? And yet there is a love that never fails. Of weakness becoming strength when surrendered. To my mind, this is a part of the beautiful truth of Shadow Hand, the concept of loving the unlovely. Very flawed heroes, aren’t they? And yet somehow, made more beautiful because of it. I could sympathize with many of the characters and was eager to follow the story since it did concern so many familiar faces, but I did not instantly fall in love with the main characters.įoxbrush: weak, afraid, bumbling and awkward in his best efforts.ĭaylily: selfish, proud, cold, running so far from what she fears that she becomes something worse. But wait, I thought you said Shadow Hand was no exception? Indeed. The characters did not instantly grab me as they have in previous Goldstone Woods books. Her books have a way of gripping you by the hand and plunging your into a faerie world so fierce and real and strange and true all at once, that you are carried away, like one dragged by the Sylphs, to a place beyond your time. It’s no secret by now that I love Anne Elisabeth Stengl’s Tales of Goldstone Woods series.
0 kommentar(er)
