matt@absolut.UUCP (10/11/85)
Brief review: Hughart's _Princess_of_Birds_ is a real winner. It is a
tongue in cheek fantasy, set in China. It's humour is broad in places
and fine in others. The broad humor is tempered with a basic respect
for the characters: these are distinct people, although not all exactly
the sort you meet on the street every day.
If you've tired of fantasies with badly concocted psuedo-Welsh names,
musclebound superknightly heroes, and a cast of ersatz Nazghul and
counterfeit Luke Skywalkers, here is an highly original work.
matt
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