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It was amazing. I will most certainly red the sequel! The author is great... everything is pretty great! Bye bye.


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The Ropemaker Ropemaker Series Peter Dickinson Books Reviews

A Valley in an Empire where magic swirls around is threatened by outside barbarians and the soldiers send to defend them. the inhabitants ask for the help of a powerful magicians, who seals the Valley both from the Empire and the barbarians. twenty generations later, the magic is wearing out, and four people from the Valley set out to find the magician and restore the spell. They travel through an Empire that is far more restrictive and lacking in freedom than their own native land, but a land far richer in magic than their home.
The book starts off well, and I was rather pleased by the initial idea of having your land sealed off by magic. On top of that, Pullman, who is one my favorites, praises the book. But - and it is a big one - the minute descriptions of ordinary actions started getting on my nerves after a while. I understand why it's done - as a contrast to magic, to ground the universe of the book with something that's familiar to the reader, that breathes reality through its pedestrian nature. But it's boring. Then, later on, you realize that not much is said about magic. Magic is as magic does, I guess, but that's the problem. I think that Pullman was fooled by the apparent similarities with his own story - the girl protagonist who becomes the unlikely hero, the sealing and breaching of worlds that seem separated - but the difference between this and the Golden Compass is like the difference between the magical candy in Harry Potter and daemons. Ropemaker reaches deep at first, but then goes back to the surface and stays there, in the end dissolving into magical duels and simplistic resolutions.
First off, the two editorial reviews that head up this review page, (from Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal), do an admirable job of summarizing this book and directing you to its strengths. (That just surprises me because so many times those reviews are pretty snotty and dismissive, or just over-the-top lavish.)

Note that this is a long book, with a great deal of character building and world building up front. Once we have set up the four main characters and the nature of their quest, the quest itself moves along at a good pace, but it is a long and complicated journey. I point that out because this is not a "quick read". It is very well done and very rewarding, but it will take a certain amount of commitment from your young reader to keep going.

That may be why the book has sort of fallen through the cracks. Too young for adults, too demanding for earlier readers. This is the kind of book that a reader might start and then return to later when her tastes, reading skills, or patience have developed.

But, congratulations on having found it. Well worth a try.
The Ropemaker is an okay formulaic fantasy that could have been so much better. A teen girl, Tilja, along with three others from her homeland, go on a quest to find a powerful magician who can re-cast the spell that protects their valley home from invaders. There are lots of obstacles to overcome, a few surprise events, and of course, it turns out that Tilja is a lot more than a messenger on a noble journey to save her people. Peter Dickinson's explanations of what magic is, and who can use it, are quite interesting and the descriptions are captivating. His character development is much less compelling. The reader learns little about Tilja until halfway through the book, and even then, it feels incomplete. I suspect most of Tilja's character is left to be revealed in the sequel. The Ropemaker is also an interesting character, and could have added much to the tone and pace of the story, but a lack of character development makes him one dimensional. The Ropemaker is a fairly entertaining story, but seems to be mostly an introduction for the rest of the series, which has the potential to be excellent with more in depth explanations, descriptions and characters.
I read this book several years ago from the library and I have been looking or my own copy ever since! What an amazing story!
Engaging and now reading Angel Isle have to complete the quest.
It was amazing. I will most certainly red the sequel! The author is great... everything is pretty great! Bye bye.