Eccentric Circles - Softcover

Lickiss, Rebecca

3.45

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ISBN 10: 0441008283 ISBN 13: 9780441008285

Publisher: Ace, 2001

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When her grandmother dies suddenly, leaving her Victorian cottage as an inheritance, Piper Dickerson stumbles upon a gateway to a magical world populated by a number of fantastical creatures, including a grumpy old wizard, a mischievous dward, and a handsome elf, who warns Piper that her grandmother's death had not been an accident. Original.

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Scholarly, literarily inclined Piper Dickerson inherits her grandmother's Victorian cottage, an acre of land, and a large library. While the library looks to her like an opening into a career as a fantasy writer, the backyard actually is an opening into the realm of Faerie. One of Piper's first Faerie encounters is with Aerlvarim, a compellingly attractive elf, and later she meets urban-fantastical dwarves, wizards, and so forth. Yet as Piper's grandmother's death begins to look mysterious and then sinister, Faerie comes to seem not wholly benign. Without knowing exactly who are friends and who foes, and possessed of only the magical knowledge she can scrape up out of the library, Piper has to unravel the mystery, preserve her and her friends' lives against unseen enemies, and struggle for peace between the human and fairy worlds. If this is hardly an original plot, Lickiss' deft hand, eye for relevant detail, and decision to write no more words than the plot will support make the book engaging light reading. Roland Green
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