![]() ![]() The Horned King has become a hired assassin. ![]() At the beginning of the book, Kay rescues Aherne, "a child, so frail and small." A few weeks later, Aherne is "a young and graceful woman, tall and strong-limbed." The book is a pastiche, and not all the elements hold together. Neither has the author a firm grasp of time, let alone time travel. Interspersed with the breathless and improbably narrative are paragraphs of purple prose, but one is constantly being brought up short by unnecessary American slang. She must find and bring together three treasures, to permit the Tuatha (who have failed, rather, as gods) to leave Ireland for some mystical "Home." In the course of the quest, Kay finds and aids the princess Eriu. Kay, the heroine, passes through an old dolmen into a prehistoric Ireland of war and invasions and power struggles between the Druids (many centuries out of context) and the Queens. ![]() The legend concerns the Tuatha De Danaan, who may have existed as gods in old Ireland, and are written down as such in the Lebor Cabala according to the author's note. ![]() The author of The Druid as Tune ยน has set another young adult story in the same mix of Celtic and modern worlds. ![]()
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