A review by lizshayne
The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia A. McKillip

5.0

Patricia McKillip is wonderful, as always. This story reminds me more of her Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy than of her shorter and more lyrical stories, but since I got into her work through Riddlemaster, that's certainly no bad thing. Her flair for words remains undiminished - the ordinary prose is musical and the poetry is excellent. Poetry in fantasy is very hit or miss, but McKillip (possibly by virtue of being married to a poet, not to mention one in her own right) always impresses.
Like the rest of her work, I highly recommend this book.