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The Hidden Land (The Secret Country #2)

Pamela Dean

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 830 Users | 40 Reviews

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Title	:	The Hidden Land (The Secret Country #2)
Author	:	Pamela Dean
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	October 13th 2003 by Firebird (first published July 1st 1986)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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"That talent of mine that in my country turns to sorcery, in yours turns to this making up." (italics mine).

Essentially, this and the Secret Country should have been one book. I would have still been furious with it for being desperately and deliciously subtle, but the jarring feeling of the beginning where the pov is a little less coherent wouldn't have happened. Also, they are entirely unsatisfying apart. Not that they are entirely satisfying together. But a lot of that has to do with, well, the reality of it, where a bitterly real world is regardless tempting to stay in. And closed worlds, where you grow up twice and never get to go back, are the worst and the best of them all.

Like Narnia. Without gods or second chances. And with so many disappointments... I want a sequel for each of the characters. I want to know what happens next, and what happened there, and what the ceremonies of the green caves were like, and what Ellen felt, and I want to be with Patrick as he works out the answers to all his questions - because I'm Patrick. It is not nearly enough. And yet there is so much already.

Present Books As The Hidden Land (The Secret Country #2)

Original Title:	The Hidden Land (The Secret Country Trilogy, Vol. 2)
ISBN:	0142501433 (ISBN13: 9780142501436)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Secret Country #2

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Found it difficult to be invested in the courtly intrigue until the twist at the end. The pacing was uneven, with a lot of meandering and repetition that could haveshould havebeen excised. And I still can't tell the difference between the Laura and Ellen characters. Well, one more book in the trilogy to go.

I was interrupted while reading The Hidden Land, and found it a little difficult to get back into the mood of the story for a while. The second book, as in any good trilogy, is a little darker and more melancholy, filled with uncertainty and mystery. The story progresses, but nothing is resolved yet.

Oh goodI liked this more than The Secret Country, which gives me hope that I'll like The Whim of the Dragon even more. The plot is tighter in this book and moves along at a better pace (well, a pace I liked better, anyway). We "know" the world now, so Dean can focus on the intrigue. In a way, there aren't that many surprises, since the children have been playing this story out for years before the start of the series, and they've been discussing what comes next all along. Still, watching them

and so the story continues in the Secret Country, with coronations, and battles, and death and resurrection, and, finally, the smell of "cars, and dust, and rubber."

In The Secret Country and The Hidden Land Dean engages directly with the main problem of portal fantasy, namely how to demonstrate that the world on the other side of the portal has a reality of its own, and that the adventures the protagonists have there are therefore more meaningful than those they would have had over the course of an afternoon spent pretending to be heroic adventurers in a fantasy world. Most peoples bad memories of the Narnia books stem from the realization that Aslan is

Picking up right where Book One, The Secret Country, left off, The Hidden Land takes the themes and dilemmas of the first installment and deepens and broadens them, raising the stakes for the kids from our world and the inhabitants of the magical kingdom alike. There is less fun and glee and more direness and pain this time around, but the writing continues excellent, so while it is not as happy a book, it is a worthy and necessary entry in the series. On to Book 3!