Pattou was written wonderful books from East to Hero's Song, I kind of expected this book to become an book that I would have liked to read over and over, Despite the fact it was a little run on exspecially with the main character, I thought this book would be like East where there would be diferent characters thoughts in each chapter or so, The pinnacle of a man in any fiction book is his courage, his bravery to overcome some great evil, and slay a dragon, Edith Pattou's "Hero's Song" is not like other fiction books, it's realistic to a degree, Collun, the main character, is human, and his emotions are as well, He would be perfectly fine living his life as a farmer, than have to play knightinshiningarmor, Every page was packed full of regular, human emotions, Collun was terrified to fight his dragon, and he wasn't so sure he wanted to be a hero either.
Every good adventurer has companions on his quest, and Collun is no different, In his journey, Collun collects friends that are very different from him, One of them, the brave archer BreoSaight, is almost exactly opposite Collun, and shows him that he is not wrong or weird for being afraid, As in many fiction books, the main character does fight evil, but Pattou humanizes the fight, making it more about the protection of a loved one than some great moral righteousness.
There is no one particular group that would like this book, but "Hero's Song" is a fantastic read, telling the tale of one boy's realization that there is more to the world than working on his patch of land.
This is not Edith Pattou's best work ever but you still need to read it in order to fully apreciate the next book, Fire Arrow, which is just flat out spectacular.
This is the story of a boy named Collun who desperately needs to get over his cowardice in order to save his kidnapped sister from who knows what As he journy's to find her he troups up with a wizard out to help, a fenale archer with a firey disposition and a thing for revenge, an old witty friend, and a mysterious elf like fellow who doesn't feel any obligation to help people other than his own kind.
As the odd team journeys through woods, labyrinths, and waist lands a plot that could destroy all of the land surfaces as well as the truths to Collun's unhappy past.
The story was almost a little too simple for me, There weren't any heart renching moments but there were scenes that I enjoy reading over and over, particularrly towards the end, I thought the end was pretty satisfing and Pattou left me wanting a whole lot more, After all when there's a mad queen out on the loose, a traitorous relative, a girl looking for the revenge of her father, and a bit of compatability between two people, you want to know how it all comes together.
Pattou did remind me of J, R. R. Tolkien in this book a little too much, The wizard was a whole like lot Gandalf, And the myterious elvish person was kind of like the elves in LOTR in that they kind of left man to destroy themselves,
The cover turned me off a little bit, After all it is kind of odd to see a gaint worm dominating everything, Never head that. Worms just happen to be a good beastly outlet,
The character developement was iffy, The characters did develope, which is more to say than books such as the Inheritance
Cycle, but they weren't too extreme, The main internal struggle is for Collun to get over his fears and become like a hero, or at least so he thinks, I believe the books mission is to show what a hero truly is and isn't, hence the title,
I liked the book, and it would be a book that I would probably buy if I could, Unfortunatly, I read Fire Arrow before I read this so I knew how it ended but it still didn't keep me from enjoying the story, I found after I read this I had to read Fire Arrow agian, A lot more made sence that way, Read this book to get to the real treat, the sequel, Hero's Song is Edith Pattou's first novel, and although she's an amateur story teller Hero's Song has a compelling story line and love able characters, Collun the main character is at the beginning a coward but he's driven forward by the love for his sister who has gone missing, His gang is also an interesting group, Some of them are stock characters and are slightly flat, but he novel is good for a first attempt, I would recommend this novel for young adults ages, As far as censorship goes Hero's Song doesn't have much questionable content, There is violence, but it is minimal,
Hero's Song is based on Irish Literature and reminds me of classic Irish Folklore with a journey through the countryside and encounters with elven faerie folk, Warriors and other things as well.
I gave this book aout ofbecause the writing is clearly amateur but the storyline is interesting, Over all it's a good novel for young adults, I loved this series SO MUCH and it breaks my heart she never finished it! Collun has always been happiest working in his garden, But his peaceful life is shattered when his sister, Nessa, mysteriously disappears, He sets off to find her and soon realizes that he and his traveling companions, including the feisty young archer BreoSaight, have become involved in something much larger and more sinister than he had imagined.
That was absolutely gorgeous, There's a passage in this that made me weep and weep and weep, When all seems lost, Brie asks Collun, a gardener at heart, to describe to her the garden of his dreams, His words are so simple, so deeply moving and beautiful it hit me then that they aren't enough tales that talk of rewards, This passage, to me, was about what's to be gained by fighting, And in the end, the answer is heartbreakingly simple beauty, love and peace, I loved this so very much and can't wait to read the second book, Found it in my neighborhood library and really enjoyed the read, Well developed historical novel with varied character and plot that held my attention and wanted me to get back, Vivid language and imagery. Dnf Several years after reading East, I decided to read Edith Pattou again, I liked East thought I would like these,
Similar to East, Pattou bases the setting and storyline on myths, However, I did not find this book very enchanting, The characters were not mediocre, but close not very developed, seemingly flat, Flat, just like the plot,
The plot was very basic and not very wellorganized, Why was Crann even around He was just a convenient plot device the characters ended up liking, All the traveling Convenient plot devices to meet Silien, BreoSaight, Crann, etc, The fantastical setting was very typical, with, for example, creepy forest, magical elflike creatures, "awesome" horses, a wizardguide, an odd but helpful witch, characters getting into things they should not, evil creatures, a battle with a dragonlike creature, an antagonist queen with evil eyes, a main character who turns out to be the song of a hero, etc.
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Not a DULL read per say enough to allow me to read the second book but not a series I would go around recommending, Just too standard. Since the East duology was so good, I thought I should try something else by Edith Pattou, and Hero's Song seemed promising, For me it didn't live up to the admittedly very high bar set by East, but it's still a good high fantasy adventure,
The world of Hero's Song reminded me of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain, partly because of the many Welshderived names, and a couple of plot elements, .
I'm guessing Edith Pattou was also partly inspired by the Mabinogion, but she changed things up enough that it still felt pretty original,
Where Hero's Song fell short for me was in its density of content compared to its page count, There is a lot of exposition, background conflict, and action competing for your attention and it probably would have benefitted from being split into two books so that readers could take a breather once in a while and get to know the characters more.
I liked Collun and his friends, but Brie and Silien needed more fleshing out, The conclusion is overly long and again throws too much information out at once, However, the prose is done well and I liked the twists involving the hero Cuillean, I didn't love this story, but I'd like to try the sequel sometime to see what happens with Brie when she gets more of the spotlight, .
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