Comments on: The Dalemark Quartet, Part 1 https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/ before I read the middle Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:37:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Drowned Ammet by Diana Wynne Jones | dreaming out loud https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-24758 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:37:52 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-24758 […] Other Reviews: By Singing Light | In the Forest of Stories | Readers By Night | Reading the End […]

]]> By: Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones | dreaming out loud https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-22730 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:01:40 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-22730 […] other work. And I did. Because I love everything by Diana Wynne Jones. Now I’m thinking of this review of Cart and Cwidder/Drowned Ammet that said ‘everything I say this week should be prefaced […]

]]> By: Book Review: Cart and Cwidder – Drowned Ammet | Tales of the Marvelous https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-19158 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:02:44 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-19158 […] reviews: Sophisticated Dorkiness Reading the End Books and Life Anyone […]

]]> By: Naureen https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-10970 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:10:07 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-10970 In reply to Trapunto.

I totally second that. Her writing magic creeps in , it isnt on youe face, For me Dalemark series have taken top slot and I will re read them perhaps every year. I wish she was alive to treat us to her extra ordinary world.

]]> By: Gertrude https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-10969 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:13:32 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-10969 : (]]> oh dear so embarrassing my site navigating is poor, you already reviewed The Spellcoats/liked it, but i wanted also to say that I have been so disappointed by DWJ’s recent books eg. The Game/House of Many Ways (Pinhoe Egg/Conrad’s Fate were alright, but they are Chrestomanci so different i suppose). The characters just seemed to…not be characters, especially in the Game, which to me seemed extremely shallow and under developed. I can only think that she had too many ideas about stories and not enough time to write them, which prompted her to churn out lesser quality works. But I was so disappointed, even with House of Many Ways, which I feel is weaker than the other two in the series (though tbh I never liked the entire Howl series nearly as much as most of her other books).

What are your thoughts on her new books? And is Enchanted Glass worth reading? I almost felt like I was reading a different author with The Game. I was shocked…! I feel so embarrassed to be commenting so late on this post again but dwj♥ : (

]]> By: Gertrude https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-10968 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:45:27 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-10968 ), only i have been rereading them lately and was struck by the Spellcoats (book 3) - i tried to find a review of this on your site and could not! Anyway, i think the way in which this is told, and Tanaqui's voice, and just the general feel is really excellent! Standing apart from the rest of the Dalemark quartet i mean, and from the rest of DWJ's books in general. (It reminds me of the end of Deep Secret when Nick is talking about Babylon which I feel is one of the most magical/meaningful/wonderful parts of Deep Secret). This comment is very garbled but I just wanted to point out the unexpected wonderfulness of The Spellcoats and hoped you might possibly agree with me because i might like it almost as much as Fire and Hemlock/Deep Secret/Hexwood (maybe...?!).]]> Oh no! Sorry for the late reply, but i have never had great fondness for the Dalemark Quartet either (except Cart and Cwidder, because Moril is ♥), only i have been rereading them lately and was struck by the Spellcoats (book 3) – i tried to find a review of this on your site and could not! Anyway, i think the way in which this is told, and Tanaqui’s voice, and just the general feel is really excellent! Standing apart from the rest of the Dalemark quartet i mean, and from the rest of DWJ’s books in general. (It reminds me of the end of Deep Secret when Nick is talking about Babylon which I feel is one of the most magical/meaningful/wonderful parts of Deep Secret).

This comment is very garbled but I just wanted to point out the unexpected wonderfulness of The Spellcoats and hoped you might possibly agree with me because i might like it almost as much as Fire and Hemlock/Deep Secret/Hexwood (maybe…?!).

]]> By: Review: The Dalemark Quartet, Books 1 and 2 https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-10967 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:27:45 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-10967 […] our awesome DWJ Week host, also had a post on these two books in which she articulates most of what I’d said a lot more clearly. You should be sure to go and […]

]]> By: The Dalemark Quartet, Part 2 « Jenny's Books https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-10966 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:14:15 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-10966 […] 5, 2010 by Jenny Dalemark! Onward! As you will recall, the country is split by North and South, the South full of angry earls who do not like to hear […]

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-10965 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:45:11 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-10965 In reply to Aarti.

It’s an instrument! It sounds like…like a lute maybe? Something relatively portable, with strings you pluck. I don’t really know instruments that well, I’m afraid.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2010/08/03/the-dalemark-quartet-part-1/#comment-10964 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:44:31 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=2691#comment-10964 In reply to Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness).

That was my memory of the fourth one too. I think my review of the second two is scheduled for tomorrow, so you’ll be able to see my reready thoughts. The Spellcoats impressed me the most this time around, although I hated it last time–go figure.

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