Books: Child of the Prophecy

Child of the Prophecy
by Juliet Marillier
Copyright 2002
596 pages

I can't recall the last time a book brought tears to my eyes.

This one did.

This is the last book in a the Sevenwaters trilogy. The first was Daughter of the Forest; the second was Son of the Shadows.

This last book features Fainne, a lost daughter of Sevenwaters. Of the three heroines of these three books, I disliked Fainne the most. She did not have the will or the strength of character of the first two books.

Yet her redemption at the end was strong enough that when she received her "punishment" I was quite moved. She did not deserve what lay on those two pages, although the ending made it much more palatable.

It was a suitable and satisfactory ending to this series of books.

These books delve into Celtic lore; they are full of myth, magic and mystery. They are set in a time when humanity actually cared about the earth and understood how central the world was to the art of being human. Humans were of the earth and not separate from it, and I love this series for setting that out.

4 stars