A review by amberacks12
In the Forests of Serre by Patricia A. McKillip

5.0

Patricia A. Mckillip is my new-found favorite author. Written in beautiful prose, concealed meanings and descriptions in her writing create a vivid landscape of wizards and dragons, monsters and stubborn princesses, deceit and hard-won love. With a mysterious phoenix stealing away men's hearts and a cruel one-eyed king with a lust for power. The forest of Serre is full of its own wild magic that cannot be bottled up and controlled, though many try. A wizard too blinded by his own desires to notice what he is turning into and how he hurts others dear to him, a mourning prince who throws himself into harms way to end his life finds he must marry again, a self-sacrificing princess of Dacia come to make a marriage treaty with Serre to keep her country safe, abandoning all love and happiness in the mountains only to find it again in the Ogre's son. Stolen hearts, trampled white hens, a man-eating witch and a book that shows you what is in your heart; all deep within the forest of Serre.