Pamela F. Service

i can't believe i read this book and liked it. i mean, are there unicorns? who am i?

Five chapters in 80 pages. Lots of excellent photographs of artifacts and contemporary living. Downplays the ferocity of the Assyrian empire's expansion. Appropriate for the children's section.

A pleasant enough YA novel of with a bit of unconventional time travel and some softy (but on reflection really bizarre) gods. Our heroine is typically discomforted by conventional boarding school life and gets the benefit of some divine interference with a young royal also typically discomforted by restrictions and duties of palace life. His expected life is totally trashed and hers gets a boost, but really, it's all OK if the gods are fine with it. Reads OK, but don't think about it too much.

Very much enjoyed reading this book as a teenager. Even now I enjoy going back and rereading it.

It's certainly and interesting take on the return of Magic and of Merlin to the world after humans cause nuclear winter when the cold war grows hot.