Herb of Grace is one of my favourite Goudges. I love the descriptions of the building and the rooms and the countryside and how they bring it back to life. Much my favourite of the three Eliot books, possibly because it was the first one I read (then went back and found Bird in the Tree).
I think Valley of Song is pretty terrible - the children are all fairly unmemorable, the 'plot' is clumsy, the horoscope stuff is stupidly overdone and there is far too much magic. Compare it to Smoky-House, where the magic is far more subtle and the children have to have faith that they really saw the Pharisees.
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Date: 2009-05-20 12:49 pm (UTC)I think Valley of Song is pretty terrible - the children are all fairly unmemorable, the 'plot' is clumsy, the horoscope stuff is stupidly overdone and there is far too much magic. Compare it to Smoky-House, where the magic is far more subtle and the children have to have faith that they really saw the Pharisees.