{"id":286,"date":"2008-12-09T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/review-of-the-light-bearers-daughter-by-o-r-melling\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T22:52:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T02:52:01","slug":"review-of-the-light-bearers-daughter-by-o-r-melling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Light-Bearer&#8217;s Daughter, by O. R. Melling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image362\" height=\"239\" alt=\"lightbearers_daughter.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lightbearers_daughter.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Light-Bearer&#8217;s Daughter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Chronicles of Faerie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by O. R. Melling<\/p>\n<p>Amulet Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 348 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ormelling.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ormelling.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amuletbooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.amuletbooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twelve-year-old Dana barely remembers her mother, who disappeared when Dana was three years old.\u00a0 Now her father wants to leave Ireland for a job in his native Canada.\u00a0 If they leave Ireland, how will her mother ever find them?<\/p>\n<p>When her father takes Dana to visit some friends, protesting the felling of a stretch of forest, Dana gets a message from faerie.\u00a0 Before long, she&#8217;s recruited for a quest, a quest to save faerie from the Destroyer who&#8217;s entered the land.\u00a0 If Dana accomplishes the quest, she can make a wish, and she knows what she wishes for more than anything else &#8212; to find her mother again.<\/p>\n<p>The quest is dark and difficult and full of surprises.\u00a0 Dana encounters several surprising helpers along the way, and the end is not what she expected.<\/p>\n<p>This is a lyrical tale, set in modern-day Ireland (even including places I have visited!), peeling back layers of magic and mystery.\u00a0 The author weaves in Gaelic songs and old Irish history, including St. Kevin in Glendalough, giving the reader a sense of place.\u00a0 Reading this book is like taking a magical trip to Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0810971232\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/lightbearers_daughter.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/lightbearers_daughter.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light-Bearer&#8217;s Daughter The Chronicles of Faerie by O. R. Melling Amulet Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 348 pages. http:\/\/www.ormelling.com\/ http:\/\/www.amuletbooks.com\/ Twelve-year-old Dana barely remembers her mother, who disappeared when Dana was three years old.\u00a0 Now her father wants to leave Ireland for a job in his native Canada.\u00a0 If they leave Ireland, how will her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}