- Kings and rulers, Succession, Fiction, Wizards
Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 318
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Ace Books, Ace Trade
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780441012480
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 5 have read it and 14 want to.
“Brenden Vetch found the Od School of Magic beneath a cobbler's shoe on a busy street in the ancient city of Kelior.”
Patricia Anne McKillip is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels. She grew up in Oregon and England. She received a BA in English in 1971 and an MA in 1973. She is a past winner of the World Fantasy Award and Locus Award, and she lives in Oregon. McKillip's stories usually take place in a setting similar to the Middle Ages. There are forests, castles, and lords or kings, minstrels, tinkers and wizards. Her writing usually puts her characters in situations involving mysterious powers that they don't understand.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Chalice 200887% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Alvin Journeyman 199586% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Prentice Alvin 198986% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Orphans of the Sky 196385% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
The Crystal City 200384% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Daja's book 199884% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Sorcery of Thorns 201984% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
Dragonsong 197683% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Poupelle of Chimney Town 202083% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, earnest, grave.
Spirit of the North 2 202578% alikeGame · Both earnest, classical in form, grave.