

The Blue Star
Author: Alexander Kuprin
Narrator: Lisa Reichert
Unabridged: 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Author's Republic
Published: 08/09/2019
Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends
Author: Alexander Kuprin
Narrator: Lisa Reichert
Unabridged: 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Author's Republic
Published: 08/09/2019
Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends
I read “The Blue Star” because I recently completed a full set of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series From the early 1970s. “The Blue Star” was the first novel in the series, and was originally published in 1952. My rating is really more like a 3.5, but I feel compelled to rate this higher because I......more
Time has not been kind, I fear, to Fletcher Pratt’s The Blue Star. After thoroughly enjoying The Compleat Enchanter, I was disappointed by how little I enjoyed The Blue Star. The plot slows down and speeds up at unpredictable intervals. Most jarring is the book’s depiction of romance, which by more......more
This book was not what I was expecting. It's an Appendix N book, Gary Gygax's list of inspirations for Dungeons & Dragons. This book has swords and sorcery, but not the grandiose, bedroom poster type. Magic is offhand, furtive, even accidental, and most violence is off-screen. What this book is inste......more
This is a very different story in a very similar world with a very different form of magic. There are witches; they are women, and they inherit it from their mothers. This is fairly normal. The first man they have sex with gains, if the witch gives them their hereditary blue star, the ability to rea......more