Bookworm Strikes Again

Okay, I'm officially a word-nerd. I stayed up late last night to read the new Robin McKinley book and loved it. I think she's one of my favorite authors.

Chalice by Robin McKinley

Marisol is new and unexperienced, but she must keep her land together. As the Chalice of the Circle she binds and witnesses everything that happens in the Willowlands. Most new Chalices have been apprenticed before they must take hold of the land yet Marisol had no idea when her cellar filled with honey mead, her goats began giving milk almost too fast for her to take care of them, and her hives were literally overflowing with honey.

But she doesn't have much time to get used to her new job because the new Master is coming, he who will help rule the Willowlands is coming back from the Priests of Fire. He more Fire now than human and Marisol must bind him to the land and the people to him if thier homes are not going to be torn apart by the outblood Heir. If she fails, all of Willowlands will be lost.

Chalice is the story of a simple farm girl who must make the choice between life and death for her people and land. Will she have the wisdom to make the right choices?