The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

"Rich and regal."
--New York Times

"Before Daenerys was Mother of Dragons, Sybel commanded beasts of all kinds. McKillip offers up a powerful character full of passion, determination, obsession, and love."
--A. C. Wise, author of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories

"I admit it: I have been seduced by Patricia A McKillip's The Forgotten Beasts of Eld . . . gorgeous, lyrical prose."
--Guardian

"With its elegant language and lovingly rendered heroine, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has won the love of readers young and old alike -- it's a book that feels richer with every rereading."
--Reedsy, The 60 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

"Like the [Lord of the] Rings trilogy or the Earthsea books . . . This magical moonlit fantasy has dignity and romance, heart-stopping suspense, adventure, richness of concept and language and--perhaps rarest of all in romantic fantasy--a sly sense of humor."
--Publishers Weekly

"This is what great literature looks like: bold, self-incisive, powerfully feminist without drawing attention to anything but the prose, the characters, and the story."
--Usman T. Malik, author of The Pauper Prince and The Eucalyptus Jinn

"This is my favorite book of all time. If I had to pick a desert island book, it would be this one."
--Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate

"Rich and lyric prose."
--Bruce Coville, author of the Dragon Chronicles

"A truly great, concentrated, thoughtful, vicious, exalted fantasy, and everyone should read it."
--Max Gladstone, author of the Hugo Award-winning Craft Sequence series

"A stunning masterpiece of fantasy. 10/10 stars."
--Fantasy Cafe

"Gorgeous, evocative, and fragile."
--Kirkus

"An extraordinary book, and McKillip deserves all the praise she received for creating such a masterful, brave, intricately crafted universe. 10/10 stars."
--Starburst

"Intimate, gorgeous, quiet and deep, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld remains as resonant as ever."
--Tor.com

"Wise and deep and lucid and crisp."
--Antick Musings

"Fear, hope, love, hatred, and all that makes us human assume magical forms in McKillip's characteristically gorgeous prose."
--E. Lily Yu, author of "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees"

"In some ways, it feels more like a dream than like a novel, more like a spell cast over the reader than like prose. It is delicious and wise--a true classic."
--Susan Fletcher, author of Dragon's Milk and Shadow Spinner

"More than 40 years after it was first published, McKillip's World Fantasy Award-winner is unquestionably a classic of the genre, and it reads as timelessly as ever in this new print and ebook edition."
--Barnes & Noble, Week's New Sci-Fi & Fantasy spotlight

"Soaring prose, lyrics to songs our hearts have forgotten they knew how to sing."
--Seattle Review of Books

"A remarkable work of literature."
--The Royal Library

"Whether you read this magical weaving as a straight fantasy or look deeper and call it allegory, I guarantee you will fall under its spell."
--Fresh Fiction

"McKillip's strange, enchanting stand-alone fantasy The Forgotten Beasts of Eld has been reissued...the writing is simply beautiful."
--Washington Post

"A magical reading experience."
--Foreword Reviews

"Full of magic, wonder and fantastic creatures."
--Speculative Herald

"This exquisitely written story has something for almost every reader: adventure, romance and a resonant mythology that reveals powerful truths about human nature."
--Amazon

"It feels ageless, eternal, light and perfect like a star."
--SF Site

"The best fantasy novel of the year and perhaps of the decade.
--Locus

"Patricia McKillip weaves an incredibly rich, poetic, wise and mystical story, holding her readers spellbound."
--St. Louis Dispatch-Post

"5/5 stars. This is one of those books that can't come with enough high recommendation."
--Seattle Review of Books