Under the Healing Sun

by Nick O'Donohoe and Ник О'Донохью

In the sequel to The Magic and the Healing, veterinarian BJ Vaughan once again brings the benefits of modern medicine to the fantasy creatures and copes with the destructive forces that have entered... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441001807
• ISBN13: 9780441001804
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

very good book

This book is a very good book especally for teenagers who like fantasy. however i recommed it to anyone over the age of 13 it has romance,adventure & horror rolled into one. the way it is written is wonderful it catches the reader and takes them away. i would recommend you read The magic and the healing first as that story ends where this story begins

Magic Indeed

I first started reading Under the Healing Sign when I was on summer vacation at my god parents' house. They have piles of books at that house. I know that I am glad for that though, because if they did not, I would never had read any of the books in this series. In this book, BJ Vaughan is working as a full time vet in Crossroads, the place where all the worlds meet. She has become acustomed to seeing things she did not even know existed. She tries her best to save everyone and everything, but that is impossible for anyone except for maybe God, or A god. Many things happen including another attack from Morgan and her army of evil. By using strength, courage and wit alone, can this evil be stopped. The theme of the story is that if you use common sense, you can defeat almost any evil in a matter of time. Of course, once you do acomplish this, the evil is not really gone, but only pevented for a little longer. BJ, is in my opinion, the ideal model of a vet. She has to go throught the trauma of puting her werewolf puppy to sleep, right in the middle of a war. She still keeps her cool until there is room and time for her to break down and let out her emotions. Morgan, on the other hand, is cunning but not very emotional. She kills for fun, and does not care whether it is her friend or her enemy. Also, the fact that she can not die is comforting in her fight for all out evil. She is the perfect villain. The only thing that was slightly frustrating was when one of the main characters died. But if it had not happened, one of the most important parts would not have taken place. That many people died is a given, but the few importants that passed were heart renching deaths. I can not say more about that without giving away the story. All in all, I think that this is a first class book. It has just enough reality mixed with the fantasy to make it belevable, but it's not too believable, so you don't get bored. I recomend it to everyone, as long as you have some time to read. I could not put it down.

One of the most engrossing I have read in years

This review is short and to the point. This is one hell of a good read

Solid fantasy novel

This book is similar to the first in the series (The Magic and the Healing), mixing modern and fantastical elements (both mythological and Mr. O'Donohoe's original ideas) very well. There is some substance here, but mostly it is a fun read. A good page-turner, humor and drama are intermingled well. None of the characters become one-dimensional or (in the cardinal sin in any novel) dull. Recommended for any reader, but make sure to start with book one of the series.

Fantasy at its best! Vibrant and mesmerizing, a real treat!!

If it's 3 a.m. and you are trying to figure out how to be a midwife to a centaur,then you've fallen under the spell of Nick O'Donohoe and his many and varied friends at the Crossroads.This series of books(3 so far)is both factual and fanciful as B.J.Vaughn,the veternarian, must come to terms with bringing both the best and the worst that our world has to offer to the "other Folk of Crossroads". A very good read,indeed.