Patricia McKillip’s The Bards of Bone Plain
Hmm, another interesting one from McKillip, but not one of my favorites. It’s about a cast of characters around a bard school, primarily one disaffected youth looking for a research paper topic, interspersed with the story of a famous bard from history/poetry. The modern storyline was more interesting to me, and I feel like some of those characters (mainly the women, especially a talented bard and a princess/archaeologist) and a late stage romance got short shrift because of the alternating timelines. I did like the bits about doing research and the eventual identity reveals, but I’m not sure the end totally made sense. B+.
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