[owleye]

yea u cant help but red it all night, well i couldnt

[Anna]

i lyk alisons books 4 the fact that even though they are in another world and they dont have many aspects of reality in the way the characters live, u can still relate 2 them. And the way u start reading and get completly lost in time.

[owleye]

for me theres 2 many reasons why youlike them, you could never come up with them all

[~claire~]

its a spilt milk, but its easier to say milky

aaah thanx oh great owley i'm enlightened

and i apologise for being to particully slow

[owleye]

lol thats no prob

[~claire~]

good, good. ANYWAY i like ali's books because she's a great author and her books ae the best! :) :D

anyone else have any on-topic comments they would like to say?

[owleye]

the books re very cretive

[Eled Idhil na]

Hmm, that's a hard question.

Well, I am a very big Tolkein fan - and by Tolkein fan I mean The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The style in which Alison writes "The Naming" (and "The Riddle" too I'm guessing) reminds me in many ways of Tolkein. The Speech is spelt and sounds a lot like the Elven languages in Lord of the Rings, as well as all the poems that tell a story (and don't necessarily rhyme) but say so much in a few words.

However, I do not like Alison's books just because they remind me of Tolkein. They books are strictly Alison. I love them because you can tell they were crafted with thought and by someone who really loves to write. It's not a story that was put out to make billions or to achieve countless honors - but it's a story that seems so familiar to all of us but new at the same time and it was published since it needed to be told, it wanted to be told.

I don't believe a story like this comes often. There are countless fantasy stories written and published each year, but they all seem to fall in that countless pile along with those that have come before it. However, the Pellinor series is one of those rare books that come along that you just have to tell someone about, that you just have read over again, that you just have to scribble on your calendar the date the next book comes out and that you feel like you'd just go to pieces if you didn't have the books in your posession.

The imagery is fantastic, yet leaves so much for our imaginations to run. The story is timeless, yet it's one we've never heard before. The characters are endearing, no matter how brooding or tempered they are. The world it is set in is strange and so different from our own, but it feels like home.

I love Alison's books simply because they give me the joy of reading and that elation that comes with being part of a wonderful story. :)

[alison]

Wow, Eled, I'm blushing! That's just lovely. Thanks so much.

Now I hope you think the same after reading The Riddle...

[dreamer]

I find it hard to describe why I live the Books of Pellinor. It's partially the whole concept, but it's also the way it's written - it lets you imagine the world for yourself, in great detail. Plus, I love the characters.

Another thing is, every time I read them, I get into them and never want to stop reading them. In my family it's described as 'falling into a book'. If I'm late getting up for school, or late for meals, it's often because I have picked up a book. I do this with a lot of books, but the books I do it most with are the Books of Pellinor (and Tolkein).