Pegasus, Robin McKinley
Pegasus, Robin McKinley
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Pegasus

Author: Robin McKinley

Narrator: Kristen Atherton

Unabridged: 15 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/30/2021


Synopsis

Because she was a princess, she had a Pegasus…

Princess Sylviianel has always known that on her twelfth birthday she too would be bound to her own Pegasus. All members of the royal family have been thus bound since the Alliance was made almost a thousand years ago; the binding system was created to strengthen the Alliance, because humans and pegasi can only communicate formally, through specially trained Speaker magicians. Sylvi is accustomed to seeing pegasi every day at the palace, but she still finds the idea of her binding very daunting. The official phrase is that your pegasus is your “Excellent Friend.” But how can you be friends with someone you can’t talk to?

But everything is different for Sylvi and Ebon from the moment they meet at her binding—when they discover they can talk to each other. They form so close a bond that it becomes a threat to the status quo—and possibly to the future safety of their two nations. For some of the magicians believe there is a reason humans and pegasi should not fully understand each other…

About Robin McKinley

Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown, a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for Sunshine. Her other books include the New York Times bestseller Spindle's End; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and Rose Daughter; Deerskin, another novel-length fairy-tale retelling, of Charles Perrault's Donkeyskin; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, The Outlaws of Sherwood.


Reviews

April 2018 update: Robin McKinley has just posted a blog post here (including her typical multilevel footnoting, which is always confusing to me but cracks me up as well) in which she announces that yes, REALLY, she's going to start writing the second half - or perhaps middle third, she's not even q......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

A new Robin McKinley book is always a rare treat, and this is a treat with extra chocolate on top. Her writing is so elegant, it brought me to tears in places. This book is as delicate and beautiful as the brush of a pegasus wing across your face. She made me feel the brush of the pegasi's feathers,......more

Goodreads review by Althea

"My Little Pony" for smart girls. But still. I've read everything Robin McKinley has published, I'm pretty sure, and 'The Blue Sword' is in my top-10 favorite books of all time. I was really excited to read this book - and it wasn't horrible, but it was rather disappointing and mildly annoying. I might......more