Deus Ex Machina
January 21st, 2011, 12:07 PM
Today, when I saw the name of a book, I suddenly remembered a book of which I can't remember the title.
I remember vaguely the story, so some things might not be quite spot on.
The world in the book has two sides, or the story just happens to be about just two countries.
One country (or side) is all artistic, to some extend possibly magical, perhaps more nature friendly and fantasy like. It isn't that well maintained as the other country though. The other one is well built, with no magical stuff going on, proper and more orderly. I guess it was more technology savvy, or at least when it came to architecture and maintenance. I think that at least the non-fantasy country was unaware of the existence of the fantasy country. Or perhaps they were both unaware or forgot about eachother.
It's about a guy (a prince, perhaps?) who lives in the "orderly" world when he finds either a necklace (stone, jewelry, or whatever it was) or the bird girl who it belongs to. A princess maybe, she might have given it to him and she was left behind...I think.
I'm not sure the how and what, but he ends up taking the trinket (which changes him in a (grey) heron when used...or the girl was the one who had the bird form of a heron) and crosses over to the other country where he stays for some time. I think he might only be able to cross to the other country if he changed into a bird.
I believe it was considered somewhat unusual that he could change in a bird. Maybe because he was a male, or because he could use it despite being from another country, or something else.
The trinket was also recognized as being from the girl. I believe she held some sort of high position, or came from a influental family.
The girl was another type of bird then the hero, btw. What I remember that everyone who could change into a bird (I think there were only few, if any) was a different kind of bird, probably depending on what kind of person they were.
I don't know many more useful details, but I'd love to know if someone remembers anything like what I described.
I remember vaguely the story, so some things might not be quite spot on.
The world in the book has two sides, or the story just happens to be about just two countries.
One country (or side) is all artistic, to some extend possibly magical, perhaps more nature friendly and fantasy like. It isn't that well maintained as the other country though. The other one is well built, with no magical stuff going on, proper and more orderly. I guess it was more technology savvy, or at least when it came to architecture and maintenance. I think that at least the non-fantasy country was unaware of the existence of the fantasy country. Or perhaps they were both unaware or forgot about eachother.
It's about a guy (a prince, perhaps?) who lives in the "orderly" world when he finds either a necklace (stone, jewelry, or whatever it was) or the bird girl who it belongs to. A princess maybe, she might have given it to him and she was left behind...I think.
I'm not sure the how and what, but he ends up taking the trinket (which changes him in a (grey) heron when used...or the girl was the one who had the bird form of a heron) and crosses over to the other country where he stays for some time. I think he might only be able to cross to the other country if he changed into a bird.
I believe it was considered somewhat unusual that he could change in a bird. Maybe because he was a male, or because he could use it despite being from another country, or something else.
The trinket was also recognized as being from the girl. I believe she held some sort of high position, or came from a influental family.
The girl was another type of bird then the hero, btw. What I remember that everyone who could change into a bird (I think there were only few, if any) was a different kind of bird, probably depending on what kind of person they were.
I don't know many more useful details, but I'd love to know if someone remembers anything like what I described.