The forgotten beasts of Eld.

217 pages

English language

Published Jan. 13, 1987 by Futura.

ISBN:: 978-0-7088-8242-9
OCLC Number:: 59682401

(1 review)

Young Sybel, the heiress of powerful wizards, needs the company of no-one outside her gates. In her exquisite stone mansion, she is attended by exotic, magical beasts: Riddle-master Cyrin the boar; the treasure-starved dragon Gyld; Gules the Lyon, tawny master of the Southern Deserts; Ter, the fiercely vengeful falcon; Moriah, feline Lady of the Night. Sybel only lacks the exquisite and mysterious Liralen, which continues to elude her most powerful enchantments.

But when a soldier bearing an infant arrives, Sybel discovers that the world of man and magic is full of both love and deceit―and the possibility of more power than she can possibly imagine.

10 editions

Michael Gouker reviewed The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Magic Carpet Books) by Patricia A. McKillip

Review of 'The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Magic Carpet Books)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I loved the voice of the narrator, the straightforward unapologetic fairy tale weave. I enjoyed the transformation of Sybel, how she loses her naïveté to the Eld version of the Great Game, and I mourn her loss of the magical world she left behind, but the beasts rescue her in the end.

Caveat: The story has begun to show its age, especially when Coren slaps some sense into Sybel. That's straight out of a John Wayne western. LOL. Up until that point this was a solid 4-star story, but this error was regretful.