a gathering of gargoyles meredith ann pierce

She learns that to do great things it requires sacrifice. Aeriel is a good heroine who follows the path of self discovery. The cover quote describes the books as Heart-warming and Heart-breaking and it truly is.

Pierce creates worlds, new species, and terminology. It is mostly fantasy and even a little sci-fi.

Some might think that the Darkangel Trilogy is in the paranormal genre because of the vampires, but it isn’t. This review is for A Gathering of Gargoyles and The Pearl of the Soul of the World… When they meet again, it is still as two strangers who would chase the idea of each other to hell and back but still, painfully, have nothing to say to each other. But as an adult I can see that his journey mirrors hers, just tragically out of sync. I used to feel such smug joy to find that Irrylath traveled halfway around the world to apologize for, essentially, not loving her back. She can't articulate that she's free, but she instinctively defends it. The 'Sibyl,' the Feasting Stone, the slave markets of Orm.Aeriel's consistent fear of being re=enslaved, of becoming ignorant and passive again, is most telling of her development. The ending of this book always entranced and terrified me. Aeriel's journey proves that she is still very much a child-a child still in love with her first, most inappropriate crush. All her seemingly magical feats are explained so easily to her (and to us) as 'help from another' or 'not my doing' or 'not what I intended.' It reminds me of becoming an adult woman-a string of events mostly outside of your control makes you become sought-after, hated, desirable, a prize to control. What always strikes me about this installment is our heroine's transformation into.a prophet, a sorceress, a scientist, take your pick. The first book is a trial, and the second book is a journey.

A gathering of gargoyles meredith ann pierce