Book Review

The Greener Shore (2006)

Details Release Date: May 30, 2006; Writer: Morgan Llywelyn; Genres: Fiction, Sci-fi and Fantasy; Publisher: Del Rey

Fifteen years after her well-known novel Druids concluded with the destruction of the Celtic tribes at the hands of that ''walking excrement,'' Julius Caesar, Llywelyn returns to finish the tale.

Genre Mash
A Wizard of Earthsea meets Siddhartha.

Lowdown
The wanderings of head druid Ainvar and his three wives as refugees in Hibernia (also known as Ireland) provide a deeply felt and at times lyrical meditation on exile and loss, but Shore lacks the oomph of the original tome.

Originally posted Jun 02, 2006 Published in issue #880-881 Jun 09, 2006 Order article reprints

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