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| The Autumn Castle (Europa Suite) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kim Wilkins
Publisher: Gollancz
Category: Book
List Price: $14.45
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 973784
Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 0575076488
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780575076488
ASIN: 0575076488
Publication Date: March 10, 2005
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Condition: In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 couldn't read it fast enough February 21, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book consumed me for two days. I'm going to order her other books from Australia. It's dark and romantic and scary and beautiful. If you love page-turning books, then this is for you.
beautiful adult fairy tale February 27, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Christine Starlight has never gotten over the deaths of her pop icon parents who were killed in an accident by an underage driver. She lives in Berlin with her lover, the artist Jude, who just won a fellowship from billionaire sculpture Immanuel Zweigler to perfect his work. His host also hunts down fairies, captures them, and drops them in an acid vat to use their bones in his current sculpture he Bone Wife which moves thanks to fairy magic which resides inn their bones after death.
Christine reunites with her childhood friend Mayfridth, who was abducted by fairies, converted into one of them, and now is the Queen of the magical realm of the German fairies Ewigkreis. Mayfridth has returned to the mundane world to visit Christine, who recently had accidentally journeyed into the fairy realm. Christine realizes May has fallen in love with Jude, but also knows the queen must return to her home because her people need her. Immanuel wants her royal skeleton and is waiting for the right time to kill her. Immanuel enters Ewigkreis to murder the fairies; Christine must stop this serial killer who now has kidnapped Mayfridth.
Kim Wilkins has created a magical realm populated by wonderful beings who seem real as if the author has visited the land of fairy. Readers will cherish Christine, a kind, loyal, and caring soul, who deserves the best, not what she has gotten. The Queen's advisor plays a critical but secondary role and his shapeshifting skills to enable him to turn into a fox, crow, or bear and that also seems genuine and adds to the feel that this fantasy tale actually happened. Readers will be swept into THE AUTUMN CASTLE by this beautiful adult fairy tale.
Harriet Klausner
Another amazing story by a brilliant author March 5, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kim Wilkins always manages to write a story that will leave you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. The Autumn Castle is no exception, filled with suspence, horror and mystery this warped fairy tale will keep you guessing untill the very end.I would advise anyone with a love for fantasey, mystery and basically just a great story, to read The Autumn Castle.
 Really good and really disgusting May 5, 2005
2 out of 17 found this review helpful
For some reason this book reminded me of Perfume. Mandy Z was so obviously made depraved by his disability.
The characters were interesting, though weak. I really didn't like any of them except Christine.
The ending was really predictable.
At least there won't be a sequel.
Evocative June 22, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book on a whim, and since have become addicted to Kim Wilkins' style, characterization, and worlds. The Autumn Castle is the fist in her new Europa suite, and is a wonderful tale of a young woman who is reunited with a long lost childhood friend. It is also about an eccentric artist's horrible desire to exterminate faries.
It is a story about fear, about betrayal, about magic. Kim Wilkins created a fairy tale for grown ups (or eliminated all the kiddy elements of pre-existing ones). I love it
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