About the Author

Patricia Collins Wrede was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the eldest of five children. She started writing in seventh grade. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where she majored in Biology and managed to avoid taking any English courses at all. She began work on her first novel, Shadow Magic, just after graduating from college in 1974. She finished it five years later and started her second book at once, having become permanently hooked on writing by this time. Patricia received her M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1977. More?

About the Books [Spoiler Warning]

This quartet is classified under young adult fantasy novels.

	Cimorene, the youngest princess of the kingdom of Linderwall, is frustrated with her cloistered, sheltered life of luxury. She is different from her blond, blue-eyed sisters in all ways. She is, while still strikingly beautiful, black-haired and as tall as most of the princes who visited. More?
	We first meet Mendanbar, the young King of the Enchanted Forest. He is puzzled about several burned spots where he found dragon scales, but, more significantly, he finds that the magical network that keeps the forest alive is mysteriously missing in every one of the burned spots. More?
	In this book, the witch Morwen is introduced in greater depth. She has been a fairly minor character in previous books, but Book Three is told from her perspective. Telemain the magician also figures significantly in this story. More?
	Daystar is raised simply by his mother and taught bits and pieces of lore about the Enchanted Forest, swordsmanship, spells, and magical protocols such as how to talk to dragons. One day the two are visited - or rather assaulted - by Antorell, one of the Society of Wizards who seems to have a grudge against Cimorene. More?

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The Fanlisting

This listing was first opened on May 15, 2007 right in the middle of the webmistress's college finals. The image used was found by googling 'enchanted forest', and the brush used was made by Aethereality.net.