Runemarks

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  Runemarks by Joanne Harris 500pp, Doubleday, £14.99 In her adult fiction - Coastliners, Blackberry Wine and Chocolat - Joanne Harris has done a lot with landscape. Language, family, the sinewy ties that bind, are all deeply implicated in the sticks a ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• RUNEMARKS

  Maddy Smith is as outcast as they come. In a Norse culture that views magic as evil and labels dark-skinned folks as Outlanders, being born an orphan girl with a ruinmark on your palm is just about the worst way to start things off. Infants and anima ... (read full critics)

  teenreads published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  Enjoyed this book a lot. This is actually my first book by Joanne Harris and I picked it up because the subject attracted me. I've always found Norse mythology interesting and also like fantasy.. and this book has both.
  It is well written, though at first it took me a while to get into the world(s) ... (continue)

  Enjoyed this book a lot. This is actually my first book by Joanne Harris and I picked it up because the subject attracted me. I've always found Norse mythology interesting and also like fantasy.. and this book has both.
  It is well written, though at first it took me a while to get into the world(s) of Maddy and how everything was set up (nice, those maps and lists of characters and runes). But once into the story, it was hard to put down. The characters were great, I really liked Maddy, Loki and Odin. And Sugar-and-sack and Lizzy (the pig) were very cute.
  Will have to keep an eye out for the sequel (Runelight).

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  Tsjara said on May 31, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• LOVED IT!!!!! Liked that the protaganist was a bit of an outsider. Based on the norse myths.

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  Elina Debbie said on Sep 24, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Not at all convincing, but nonetheless pleasant.
  It seems to me that, lately, wherever I turn I find Norse Gods; between Sandman, American Gods and this book I had my fair share of them.
  The problem with this book is that, in spite of its lenght, it doesn't explain. Not enough, anyway. Thi ... (continue)

  Not at all convincing, but nonetheless pleasant.
  It seems to me that, lately, wherever I turn I find Norse Gods; between Sandman, American Gods and this book I had my fair share of them.
  The problem with this book is that, in spite of its lenght, it doesn't explain. Not enough, anyway. Things like the past of the Gods, what appened before, are just hinted at and nothing more.
  And then... then some things just don't add up: how come Skadi knows Maddy is Thor's daughter when no one told her?
  Why is Loki in the end just this brave and gruff character instead of the mean trickster without a moral?
  And why no one realized sooner the Whisperer was the Nameless, when I guessed it hundreds of pages before the end?

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  Poyel said on May 14, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 500 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0385611307
• ISBN-13: 9780385611305
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Pub date: Aug 02, 2007
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD, Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español

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