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The Blue Star
Fletcher Pratt
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The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth century.
The protagonists are Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary witch, and Rodvard Bergelin, an ordinary government clerk who has been recruited into the radical conspiracy of the Sons of the New Day. Rodvard, though attracted to the daughter of a baron, is commanded by his superiors to seduce Lalette instead to gain the use of her blue star in the furtherance of their revolutionary aims. The witch is no more truly enamored of him than he is of her, but both fall in with the scheme for their own reasons, unaware of how much they are simply pawns in the larger scheme of things.
The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth century.
The protagonists are Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary witch, and Rodvard Bergelin, an ordinary government clerk who has been recruited into the radical conspiracy of the Sons of the New Day. Rodvard, though attracted to the daughter of a baron, is commanded by his superiors to seduce Lalette instead to gain the use of her blue star in the furtherance of their revolutionary aims. The witch is no more truly enamored of him than he is of her, but both fall in with the scheme for their own reasons, unaware of how much they are simply pawns in the larger scheme of things.
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Time has not been kind, I fear, to Fletcher Pratt’s The Blue Star. After thoroughly enjoying The Compleat Enchanter, I was disappointed by how little I enjoyed The Blue Star. The plot slows down and speeds up at unpredictable intervals. Most jarring is the book’s depiction of romance, which by more
This book was not what I was expecting. It's an Appendix N book, Gary Gygax's list of inspirations for Dungeons & Dragons. This book has swords and sorcery, but not the grandiose, bedroom poster type. Magic is offhand, furtive, even accidental, and most violence is off-screen.
What this book is inste
Not a lot for me to like in this one.
I find Pratt's writing style too often veers into the "baroque" and the flourishes take away more from the stories than they add. So too with this one.
The basic plot of the story is pretty interesting, but the characters aren't especially likable or compelling,
The Blue Star is a jarring, unsettling novel dominated with political and religious Game of Thrones type intrigues and with a layered and twisted plot that does not read like modern fantasy. The world is an impressive, complex build. The characters are flawed, many unlikeable, but some, like Lalette
I read “The Blue Star” because I recently completed a full set of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series From the early 1970s. “The Blue Star” was the first novel in the series, and was originally published in 1952. My rating is really more like a 3.5, but I feel compelled to rate this higher because I
(read as part of my Appendix N project)
As some other reviewers have mentioned, this one was a little hard to get through; every character is flawed in some way that basically precludes your rooting for (or even caring much about) them, and though the world is worked out in high detail it can feel a
This is a very different story in a very similar world with a very different form of magic. There are witches; they are women, and they inherit it from their mothers. This is fairly normal. The first man they have sex with gains, if the witch gives them their hereditary blue star, the ability to rea
The book starts off very well and is very engaging, but it sadly gets lost in a very convoluted and unfleshed out story with characters that are neither relatable nor believable.