5/8/2023 0 Comments The heartlight saga![]() But everything she does is in service to the plot. Kate is a stock heroine, whose emotions are limited to righteous indignation and longing for home. None of these stand out as distinct characters, beyond the comfortable roles which they were written to fill. Along the way, she meets a variety of stock characters, including a mysterious old aunt, a selection of noble savages, wise magical beings, evil lizard men, etc. Her role is to ask questions to drive the exposition, to calmly accept the twists and turns of the adventure plot, and to behave with unimpeachable bravery and courage. The protagonist, thirteen-year-old Kate Gordon, is little more than a reader surrogate in this, the second volume of a loose trilogy. ![]() ![]() Barron’s The Ancient One is a paint-by-numbers young adult fantasy, which browbeats the reader with environmentalist themes without leavening the experience with engaging characters or entertaining plot. ![]()
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