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Original Title:	Frostflower And Thorn
ISBN:	0425045404 (ISBN13: 9780425045404)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Frostflower #1

Frostflower And Thorn (Frostflower #1)

Phyllis Ann Karr

Paperback | Pages: 275 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 125 Users | 18 Reviews

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The hot-tempered, impulsive swordswoman Thorn has gotten pregnant. The gentle, celibate sorceress Frostflower wants a child, and can bring a baby from conception to birth in an afternoon. Though the pacifistic sorcerers are feared and hated outside their mysterious mountain retreats, Frostflower persuades the suspicious warrior to let her magick the baby to term. But when the sorceress's actions arouse the wrath of the ruling priests, Frostflower and Thorn find themselves outlaws under a death sentence.

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Title	:	Frostflower And Thorn (Frostflower #1)
Author	:	Phyllis Ann Karr
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 275 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1980 by Berkley (first published 1980)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Feminism. High Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Heroic Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery

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Ratings: 3.45 From 125 Users | 18 Reviews

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You should be glad there isn't a book cover image on hand, is all I'm saying. It's better than the cover (some interesting feminist stuff, good world-building of a place I NEVER EVER want to visit), but it had serious pacing problems.

I first read a short story about the characters Frostflower and Thorn ("The Garnet and the Glory") almost 20 years ago, and loved it. I enjoyed the full book about them, but I think Phyllis Ann Karr does much better in the short story format. Being forced to move the story along quickly does wonders for the pacing, because in the book whole pages would go by while the character considered every possible step and every possible outcome...you have to admire how THOROUGH Karr is in coming up with

I took too long to read this. It was my "carry it around with me everywhere and only read a page when I'm waiting in line" book for like 6 months. It has a very disturbing rape scene. The friendship between Frostflower and Thorn was nice, but the rape scene kind of overruled everything.

Couldn't end it. Rape and too much violence did not agree with me.

I know I've come across short stories by Phyllis Ann Karr before, but this was the first novel I'd read by her. An early entry into the sword-and-sorceresss genre, it's a tale about two very different women: Thorn, a foul-mouthed, sex-loving, polytheistic warrior - and Frostflower, a virginal, vegetarian, monotheistic sorceress. With the topics of abortion and religion featuring significantly in the plot, I kept worrying that the story would veer into moralizing - but it gracefully steered

Frostflower and Thorn is what I would call a stripped-down fantasy story. It's really basic in its world, characters, and story. Maybe this was more special when it came out, as it has darker elements like sexual assault and horrible torture worse than death, but now it doesn't really strike me as interesting. I think the fault lies in the fact that it's so stripped-down. I don't feel like I know the world, why I should care, and why I would even continue when I feel I know how it will end up.

1st in series.