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Original Title:	Hero's Song: The First Song of Eirren
ISBN:	0152055428 (ISBN13: 9780152055424)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Songs of Eirren #1

Hero's Song (The Songs of Eirren #1) Paperback | Pages: 348 pages

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Title	:	Hero's Song (The Songs of Eirren #1)
Author	:	Edith Pattou
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 348 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2005 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published November 15th 1991)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Adventure. Fiction

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This is not Edith Pattou's best work ever but you still need to read it in order to fully apreciate the next book, Fire Arrow, which is just flat out spectacular.
This is the story of a boy named Collun who desperately needs to get over his cowardice in order to save his kidnapped sister from who knows what? As he journy's to find her he troups up with a wizard out to help, a fenale archer with a firey disposition and a thing for revenge, an old witty friend, and a mysterious elf like fellow who doesn't feel any obligation to help people other than his own kind. As the odd team journeys through woods, labyrinths, and waist lands a plot that could destroy all of the land surfaces as well as the truths to Collun's unhappy past.
The story was almost a little too simple for me. There weren't any heart renching moments but there were scenes that I enjoy reading over and over, particularrly towards the end. I thought the end was pretty satisfing and Pattou left me wanting a whole lot more. After all when there's a mad queen out on the loose, a traitorous relative, a girl looking for the revenge of her father, and a bit of compatability between two people, you want to know how it all comes together.
Pattou did remind me of J.R.R. Tolkien in this book a little too much. The wizard was a whole like lot Gandalf. And the myterious elvish person was kind of like the elves in LOTR in that they kind of left man to destroy themselves.
The cover turned me off a little bit. After all it is kind of odd to see a gaint worm dominating everything. Never head that. Worms just happen to be a good beastly outlet.
The character developement was iffy. The characters did develope, which is more to say than books such as the Inheritance
Cycle, but they weren't too extreme. The main internal struggle is for Collun to get over his fears and become like a hero, or at least so he thinks. I believe the books mission is to show what a hero truly is and isn't, hence the title.
I liked the book, and it would be a book that I would probably buy if I could. Unfortunatly, I read Fire Arrow before I read this so I knew how it ended but it still didn't keep me from enjoying the story. I found after I read this I had to read Fire Arrow agian. A lot more made sence that way. Read this book to get to the real treat, the sequel.

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Eh. While there were a few things I enjoyed about Hero's Song (Collun's love of gardening and knowledge of herb lore, Brie, the mystery behind Collun's weird family), for the most part I found it...uninteresting. It's a very typical journey/quest fantasy story, but not a particularly well done one. The main word that comes to mind here is clumsy. The dialogue is stiff, and the characters don't feel fully-formed, and it seems like things fall into place too easily at times, or are just too

Hero's Song by Edith Pattou is a Fantasy novel about a boy named Collun and his sister. Collun sister who's name is Nessa, decides to visit her Aunt in a place called Temair. While there, Nessa is kidnapped and Collun decides that it is his duty to go find her. Before he leaves, he gets some interesting advice from his mother, Emer, and heeds it with caution and suspicion of what is really going on. As Collun journeys to find his missing sister, he comes by some strange things and figures out

I wanted to like this book. It was readable and had all the elements of a good story. But the character development was lacking. I never really felt any kind of sympathy or bonding with any of the characters. The storyline also was not particularly fluid--things happened simply by chance more often than they occurred due to active participation of the characters. A nice bit of fluff to while away a couple hours but not a book I'm likely to reread.

A fun read. Best written? no. A pleasurable fun fast journey? yes. What i liked best about this book was the various types of monsters we were introduced too and also the fact that the author used names and "persona" of several Irish Legendary Characters...she kept their architypes, but did not limit their contribution in this story to just their known myth. She had them act as HER characters behaving how they likely would behave based on what we think we know about them. This was fun for me,

I loved the writing style of the author, I felt in a way like I was the character, I knew as much as he did and felt as he did. I also liked that he wasn't the classic brace hero, but that he had to earn his courage by doing things that terrified him! Somewhat relatable and inspiring. And the characters are all super lovable.

This is a great heroic story. I really enjoyed the sense of adventure and epic journey feeling. It similar to Lord of the Rings storyline, and there was similarities between the two stories. Unlikely hero, a fellowship, mystical monsters, epic battle scene, etc. The only thing I did not like, was the writer used made up words that were part of that world, but not ours. She didn't explain them or use context where I could understand, which made me feel lost sometimes. Overall I liked the book,

So Collun, who thinks he's a coward, becomes a hero. The song is by Taliesen, of course. It's very much a good vs evil, children on a quest story. I see glimmers of interesting things in Brie as well as Collun, but the rest of the characters are pretty flat. I'm hoping the thing about Collun's dad being bad is important in a later story because it feels like it was just stuck onto the side of this story.