The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

I feel like a bad person giving this book only three stars. It has the trademark McKillip prose (gorgeous and inspired), great world-building, and an inventive plot. But somehow the parts did not translate to a satisfying whole for me. It's McKillip's first novel. It won the 1975 World Fantasy Award and was nominated for the Mythopoeic Award as well. I just found out she passed away just three and half weeks before the writing of this review and I am devastated. I have loved almost all I've read of her body of work and want to read more as time goes on. So I feel even more like a heel for not appreciating this one more.

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