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Original Title:	The Spellcoats
ISBN:	0064473155 (ISBN13: 9780064473156)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Dalemark Quartet #3
Characters:	Tanaqui

The Spellcoats (The Dalemark Quartet #3)

Diana Wynne Jones

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 3222 Users | 146 Reviews

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Title	:	The Spellcoats (The Dalemark Quartet #3)
Author	:	Diana Wynne Jones
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2001 by HarperTrophy (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens

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The Spellcoats is one of the first books I ever read by Diana Wynne Jones and is still one of my favorites. With her tenth published novel, she demonstrates a maturity that marks the rest of her career; as good as her previous works are, with The Spellcoats she plays with first person limited POV and the clash of cultures to create Dalemark's history in a way that perfectly fits what she's already established with Cart and Cwidder and the more complex Drowned Ammet.

I didn't realize, back in the day, that this book was part of a series. I didn't have access to Drowned Ammet, and as The Spellcoats happens in pre-historic Dalemark, it wasn't obvious to me that it was set in the same world as Cart and Cwidder. Reading DWJ's novels in chronological order makes a huge difference. The Spellcoats is good on its own, but so much better read as a prequel (and I am very fond of prequels).

As usual, DWJ depends on the family structure to drive her plot. In this case, it's Tanaqui and her four siblings at the story's center; their blondness and mysterious dead mother setting them apart from the dark-haired villagers, and worse, they look like the invading Heathens their people are at war with. Driven out of their home, they travel down the River to whatever lies at its mouth near the ocean, find a great evil, and travel back to the River's source to find a way to stop it. They're not a perfect family--this would not be a book by DWJ if they were. Tanaqui gets impatient with her siblings, especially her sister Robin; Hern is a rationalist who doesn't believe in magic (unfortunate, because it seems to surround them) and Duck gets all vague whenever trouble threatens. But this is exactly what makes the story work, because it's the conflicts between them that create the conflict that drives the story. Their encounter with the evil Kankredin at the River's mouth goes both well and poorly because of who the children are and how they interact with each other.

The main conceit of this book is that Tanaqui, a master weaver, is telling the story through weaving it into a giant "rugcoat"; those who know how can read it. DWJ's skill makes this conceit hold together, as Tanaqui tells the story as if it's all already happened (which it has) and the "coats" end and begin in places where Tanaqui would have the ability to weave--not a small thing.

Tanaqui gets most of my sympathy because, as the POV character, she can put herself in the best light, but usually doesn't. Or, more accurately, she'll admit later in her weaving things that she left out earlier. She sketches the others fairly but accurately, and I especially like how she admits to getting impatient with her sister when Robin is ill. Tanaqui also ends up having the most important role to play, even though it's a role that leaves her ignored by history. (view spoiler)[The postscript, which describes archaeologists discovering her two rugcoats/spellcoats, is written centuries later and makes speculations about what the story might have meant. Of the five children, the girls are the ones who are overlooked: Robin disappears entirely, probably because she runs off with Tanamil, and Tanaqui is identified with a mythical figure that doesn't even have her name. History does tend to forget about its women. (hide spoiler)]

I'm tempted, just a little, to ignore my chronological reading project and move immediately to The Crown of Dalemark, which finishes the Dalemark Quartet--but it was written 14 years later, so I'll just have to be patient a little longer.

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Better for me than the first two in the series, but can only warrant an extra star. Found the character building poor and by the end of the book I really didn't care about them. I felt as a prequel it was odd to be third in the series but was good to get some history of Dalemark.. Some good ideas and differnet take on magic again once again in this book , but perhaps reading this as an adult is why it doesn't work for me idk. I just hope that the forth and last in this series is better again..

The Spellcoats is one of the first books I ever read by Diana Wynne Jones and is still one of my favorites. With her tenth published novel, she demonstrates a maturity that marks the rest of her career; as good as her previous works are, with The Spellcoats she plays with first person limited POV and the clash of cultures to create Dalemark's history in a way that perfectly fits what she's already established with Cart and Cwidder and the more complex Drowned Ammet.I didn't realize, back in the



A young girl, who has little idea that she has a talent for weaving magical spells into garments, has to abandon home along with her orphan siblings when they are all suspected of colluding with invaders with whom they happen to share physical characteristics. Thus begins a journey downriver to the sea and then back again up to its source before the causes of the conflict can start to be addressed.The Spellcoats has a markedly different feel compared to the middle two Dalemark tales (

By far my favorite of the Dalemark Quartet (so far)! Tanaqui was a fantastic narrator, and I liked how truly..... unlikable... her and her siblings were. (...maybe unlikable is not the right word... what I mean to say is, as they got annoyed with each other, I got annoyed at and with them, which happened QUITE A BIT, so while clearly I was emotionally invested, it did not make a large section of the book very fun to read) HOWEVER the manner in which the story was presented (as a recovered

Review in English below.På trods af at De magiske kapper er tredje bog i en serie, kan man sagtens læse den uden at have kendskab til serien. Det gjorde jeg, og det første lange stykke tid, troede jeg næsten der var sket en fejl i navngivningen, fordi handlingen på ingen måde afslørede at der skulle have været to bøger før den.Det viste sig dog at have sin gode forklaring. Kronologisk er De magiske kapper den tredje bog i Dalmark-kvartetten, men handlingsmæssigt beskriver den begivenheder der

Started slowly, and seemed a little out there for Diana, because of the religiosity of "The Ones" but at the midway point her humour really started showing through.Can't wait to read the rest of the Dalemark Quartet