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by Joan Aiken

Author:	Joan Aiken
Subcategory:	Action & Adventure
Language:	English
Publisher:	CAPE JONATHAN CHILDR; First Edition edition (2004)
Pages:	288 pages
Category:	For children
Rating:	4.6
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Midwinter Nightingale: N. 0 Hardcover – 4 Mar 2004. by Joan Aiken (Author).

Midwinter Nightingale: N. I have been a fan of Joan Aiken's Wolves chronicles ever since my mother brought home The Wolves of Willoughby Chase for me to read in first grade; I own most of her books and enjoy her short stories and other novels as well.

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Nothing in nature is unbeautiful. ― Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Arabel and Mortimer (Arabel and Mortimer, by Joan Aiken · Quentin Blake. Midwinter Nightingale (The Wolves Chronicles, Dido and Simon are in danger in this new addition to the Wolves Chronicles. Dido, back in England from America, is almost instantly kidnapped and taken to a derelict mansion surrounded by a deadly moat. The evil baron residing there, who is also a werewol. The Whispering Mountain (The Wolves Chronicles, #0).

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Midwinter Nightingale. Need help? Please read our short guide how to send a book to Kindle. Lothar pushed out his lower lip and scowled. Why does he have to come here? Stuttering and fussing and fidgeting? I don't like him. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Раздел 10. 134. Авторские права. Amanda Craig, writing in The Times, said, 'She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in 1962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed.

Midwinter Nightingale is a part of the Wolves Chronicles collection Though the coronet is rumored to be in the derelict mansion where Dido is imprisoned, no one can find it. It’s one cliffhanging, hair-raising chapter after another in this.

Midwinter Nightingale is a part of the Wolves Chronicles collection. Dido and Simon are in danger in this new addition to the Wolves Chronicles. The evil baron residing there, who is also a werewolf, wants desperately to know where King Dick is hidden. For the king is dying, and the evil baron wants to put his own demented son on the throne. Though the coronet is rumored to be in the derelict mansion where Dido is imprisoned, no one can find it. It’s one cliffhanging, hair-raising chapter after another in this tongue-in-cheek, devilishly delicious adventure.

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Sadly, I think this is pretty awful, with very little of the incredible charm that makes the earlier books in the series so wonderful. It differs from them in a couple of unpleasant ways: For one, there is quite a lot of violence in this book -- characters get hurled over cliffs; stabbed in the throat; tossed to ravenous, man-eating fish; and more, and all without any of the series characters (Dido in particular) registering much surprise or regret. The horror element, courtesy of one character's status as a werewolf, is also both new to the series and badly done: It's neither scary nor specific, and the ultimate impression is of sloppiness, as if one of the particularly badly conceived demons from "Buffy" had fetched up in the world of Willoughby Chase, but without the wit or the Scooby Gang. And finally, Aiken's traditionally fabulous touch with historical language deserted her with this book. One character describes another as "dyslexic" -- a term that didn't exist outside of the clinical world until the late 20th century, and is in any case much too technical a term for the character who uses it to know. Dialect is so overused that a couple of the characters are literally incomprehensible.

All in all, I'm very sad to say that this book is a mess, and a poor follow-up to one of the best childrens' series ever written. I give it two stars rather than one because at least Dido can be counted on to say "Croopus," and because I liked the description of Granda's four-course breakfast, complete with flaming brandy.

Rolorel

Wolves of Willoughby Chase won a newbery honor or medal. The series continued in Nightbirds off Nantucket, with a trip to America. I must admit I never knowbwho Aiken was writing for--children or for grownups who will venture into the Children's Room and brave the children's librarians. The "Wolves" series centers on two characters: Simon,who enters as a goose boy dwelling in cave near an English mansion called Willoughby Chase, which is the setting for part of only the first book in the series. Black Hearts over Battersea is actually the second, which introduces Dido Twite, A late-born sprite. Dido travels the world, meeting and saving people from awful fates. Dido and Simon become a romantic diad, tied by fate and parted by fate just as frequently. Aiken shifted history in her books, to put technology and politics where they made good drama. enjoy the ride. Nightingale, one of the last books in this series that was published over a period of decades, includes magic, fate, evil relatives, kings, islands, cellars, and Dido and Simon. Aiken won't be writing any more. She died a few years ago. If you have to get her books from your local library and from inter-library loan, you won't be sorry.

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Dido Twite has just returned to England, from a visit to Nantucket, and a chilling welcome greets her. She is captured and imprisoned by Baron Rudh (werewolf), his awful son Lot, and the evil Duchess of Burgundy. Her captors hope that she will lead them to Simon Battersea (6th Duke of Battersea) and King Richard, who is on his deathbed. The bad trio plan to put Lot on the throne.

Meanwhile, Simon is struggling to hide King Richard, in the flooded wetlands (where the Burgundians are planning to invade).

Simon also has to find the ancient coronet, but is hampered by the boring Jorinda, a flock of sheep, Russian Bears, and the United Real Saxon Army, who do not fight.

Who will be the King?

A thrilling novel, by Joan Aiken, that makes you want to read it.

Wafi

Who needs Harry Potter when you can thrill to the adventures of Dido Twite, the indefatigable Cockney heroine of Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles?
In this latest installment, Dido is back in England during the (fictional) reign of King Richard IV, just in time to help save the throne from the loutish son of a werewolf baron. Yes, the plot sounds outrageous, and perhaps it is--but the story is so fast-paced, the narrative so vivid and yet so concise, and the characters so charismatic that even the most literal-minded reader (youngster or adult) is unlikely to care.
For fans of Aiken's entire series, which begins with "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" and includes "Black Hearts in Battersea," "Nightbirds on Nantucket," and "The Cuckoo Tree" (one of my favorites), one of the most rewarding aspects of "Midwinter Nightingale" is Dido's reunion with her mate Simon--and the bittersweet yet open-ended way Aiken closes the book. Surely another episode is in the works?

Yanki

I have been a fan of Joan Aiken's Wolves chronicles ever since my mother brought home The Wolves of Willoughby Chase for me to read in first grade; I own most of her books and enjoy her short stories and other novels as well. However, both this novel and the preceding Dangerous Games disappointed me. While I have no objections to the fantastic plot, it needed to be more fleshed out in order to be convincing. In The Stolen Lake and The Cuckoo Tree Ms Aiken successfully meshed magical, mysterious elements with the vivid, real-feeling world of her novels. Midwinter Nightingale, despite some promising plot elements, falters: she takes her readers' suspension of disbelief for granted. This wouldn't be so bad, however, if the characters held up. Instead, Dido seems a flat imitation of her usual self, drained of all complexity and turned into a dashing puppet. Simon, too, is reduced to a cricature. The villains are unconvincing, and they way that the story deals with them is troubling. One character in particular does not seem evil enough to merit the swift death and lack of remorse that the plot imposes, while another character is killed off in a rather callous manner. I hope that Joan Aiken's next (and final) novel is a return to form; all of her previous books are so good, it would be a shame for this one to overshadow her memory.

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