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Songspinners

Sarah Ash

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 45 Users | 6 Reviews

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Original Title:	Songspinners
ISBN:	0752805827 (ISBN13: 9780752805825)

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Quite sadly, this book was one of the most disappointing ones I ever started with good expectations.
Set in an, admittedly, interesting fantasy world ranging somewhere around the 1900s - the novel's only strong point - the story deals with the female protagonist's search for her mother's strange death, and the struggle of composer Khassian and his "diva", an eunuch.
And here we go. At one point I started to keep a list of all those bits and pieces that pulled the story far beyond the ridiculous. The writing style is unskillful to say the least, the characters range between flat, ridiculously silly and downright annoying, and the plot, which didn't sound bad in a nutshell, suffers from logical flaws en masse, stupid character behaviour and the writing.

The whole story, from the first page on, starts rather constructed and forced, never developing any of the flair of that credible writing creates. In a world in which the author feels the need to create exotic atmosphere by shallowly renaming everyday-life items (coffee = quaffe and similar), the characters stumble around in armwailing, theatrical drama.
The whole story lives off a first huge logical error - the composer Khassian lost his hands (completly!) in a fire: Of course, he neither got the slightest other burns or injuries from this accident, nor did he inhalte the slightest bit of smoke. The author frequently seems to work with constructions like these, ignoring logic in order to be able to write about drama:

In this story, every character, from protagonist to the experienced leader of another country's army (who, for some inexplainable reason, could be spared at his uproaring homecountry in order to deal with a minor rebel elsewhere... indeed). They all start to shiver suddenly or showcase single tears running down their cheeks for random reasons. This might've been less ridiculous if it had happened less than twice a page, but alas, these emotional outburst on the sight of a poem happens so regularly with every character that you can't help but roll your eyes.
Characters inconsistently change moods within the sentence, formerly "calmly" talking characters can scream hysterically at the end of the same sentence only to be calm and stoic again a sentence later. None of the characters ever developes realistic traits, they stay shallow and silly.

Finally, the story also seems to have lacked an editor. While in one scene, Khassian angrily tells another character the current situation in his homecountry, a chapter later another character tells Khassian the same thing - and Khassian breaks out into despair and more armwailing, because apparently he never heard of this before?

Personally, I think this novel resembles a bad fanfiction written by a 14-years-old person with all it's angst, inconsistencies, logical errors and short, jumpy, undetailed scenes with in-your-face explanations by the author.
What good ideas might've been there in the first place have been effectively destroyed by ridiculous characters, silly writing, awkward style, and missing logic.

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Title	:	Songspinners
Author	:	Sarah Ash
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	by HarperCollins Canada, Limited (first published April 15th 1996)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Music. Fiction

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I rarely write reviews on GR but was so disturbed by the previous review of this novel that I had to speak up. "Songspinners" is Sarah Ash's second novel set against the ever-expanding fantasy world where her novels "Moths to a Flame", "The Lost Child" and The Tears of Artamon trilogy all take place. It can be appreciated on its own or as a companion of Ashs other novels. The story is one of the entwined fates of three people: Orial Magelonne, a young woman with a musical heritage forbidden to

Quite sadly, this book was one of the most disappointing ones I ever started with good expectations.Set in an, admittedly, interesting fantasy world ranging somewhere around the 1900s - the novel's only strong point - the story deals with the female protagonist's search for her mother's strange death, and the struggle of composer Khassian and his "diva", an eunuch.And here we go. At one point I started to keep a list of all those bits and pieces that pulled the story far beyond the ridiculous.

This book seduced me slowly. The writing is spare but a bit dense, and though I found it easy to enter into into the fantasy situation,I was not immediately enchanted.The parallels with our world seemed too obvious and I was prepared for an equally simplistic plot development. Not so! The book had me constantly flipping back and wishing I had paid more attention at the beginning.I will need to read this again!The conflict of the lotus and the rose...I am intruiged enough to research the basis of

Wow, 45 ratings and 5 reviews. That's just offensive for a book this good (and an author this skilled).This is the sixth work from Sarah Ash that I've read, and it's probably--no, definitely!--my favorite. It's an epic read in a fairly slim novel of 325 pages about religious corruption, finding oneself amid chaos and revolution, grief, dealing with depression from a disability (as someone who experiences the same, let me tell you it's no easy matter), and other important and relevant themes.Book

A bit slow in the beginning, but more and more awesome as it went on. Could have used a few dozen more pages, but even without, it ended on a good note.

Sarah Ash was gracious enough to send me a copy of this book over the summer when I mentioned on my blog that it was one of two that I had not been able to track down in the US. The best part about that is Songspinners will soon be coming to ebook format, along with her other two UK only novels, and everyone should be able to enjoy them. Despite having read this book nearly every night since I got it, I just recently finished it due to tiny print difficulties and my eyesight not quite being what

Sarah Ash was born and brought up in Bath. At university she trained as a musician, but returned to her childhood love of writing as the author of highly-praised novels, including the Tears of Artamon Trilogy. Sarah also writes about her love of anime and manga for Anime UK News. Exciting new projects coming in 2019...Quite sadly, this book was one of the most disappointing ones I ever started with good expectations.Set in an, admittedly, interesting fantasy world ranging somewhere around the 1900s - the novel's only strong point - the story deals with the female protagonist's search for her mother's strange death, and the struggle of composer Khassian and his "diva", an eunuch.And here we go. At one point I started to keep a list of all those bits and pieces that pulled the story far beyond the ridiculous.