Song for the Basilisk

Praise for Patricia A. McKillip and her novels

“There are no better writers than Patricia A. McKillip.”—Stephen R. Donaldson

“I’ve been reading Pat’s books from the beginning…I’ve always loved her work for the obvious things, the things that everybody else who writes about her loves her books for, too: her sense of style, her deep understanding of the ancient story-myths that all of us story-tellers build on, the humanity, which is also to say the unpredictability, of her (human!) characters, who are and are not what they appear to be, and who often surprise us for both good and ill—just the way people out here in the real world do.”—Robin McKinley

“Weaving the past and present together into a vividly human and deftly layered story, master storyteller McKillip once again shows that language can be magic.”—New York Journal of Books