The Hero and the Crown Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Robin McKinley
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
271

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Book Summary

In Robin McKinley’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, an outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm

Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.

She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father’s library. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat’s weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment . . .

But modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. There is no honor in killing dragons. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history.

That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. A weary man on an exhausted horse staggers into the courtyard where the king’s troop is assembled: “The Black Dragon has come . . . Maur, who has not been seen for generations, the last of the great dragons, great as a mountain. Maur has awakened.”

“[The Hero and the Crown] confirms McKinley as an important writer of modern heroic fantasy, a genre whose giants include C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin.” —The Washington Post

“An utterly engrossing fantasy.” —The New York Times
Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown, a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for Sunshine. Her other books include the New York Times bestseller Spindle’s End; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and Rose Daughter; Deerskin, another novel-length fairy-tale retelling, of Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, The Outlaws of Sherwood. She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson; three dogs (two hellhounds and one hellterror); an 1897 Steinway upright; and far too many rosebushes.

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Book Name The Hero and the Crown
Genre Fantasy for Kids
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Language English
E-Book Size 2.35 MB

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Still holds up <3. First read as ya lit and recently revisited years later— still captivating and a beautifully written adventure.

Sad. I just can't believe it ended like this. I will forever remember this ending and weep for it breaks my soul and heart to see how it ended. Nonetheless it was a wonderful book that awe me through and through out.

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Summary of The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

The The Hero and the Crown book written by Robin McKinley was published on 18 November 2014, Tuesday in the Fantasy for Kids category. A total of 271 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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