The Riddle of the Wren

Title : The riddle of the wren

Author : Charles de Lint

Citation : De Lint, Charles. The riddle of the wren. New York : Firebird, 2002.

Who's afraid of nightmares? Trapping on her nightmare one day, she meets Jan, the Lord of the the Moors who has been captured by Ildran the Dream-master-the same being who traps Minda. In exchange for her promise to set him free, Jan gives her three tokens. Then, she embarks on a journey leaving the comfort of her old life to new world to save Jan, to confront Ildran and to solve the riddle of the wren. This is the first novel of Charles de Lint, who is an extraordinary prolific writer of fantasy works. The author succeeds in introducing the incremental changes happening to Minda, not only the changes that she's unaware but the ones she sees as she travels. The story is not written with complicated plot that makes it easy to read. Also, the pace is rapidly fast but does not make the readers lost. Readers could never get bored as some surprising plot point is revealed. That's why this novel was the winner of the World Fantasy Award.