Recently read: Pegasus

As I've said before, Robin McKinley has written some of my very favorite books[1], so I've been very much looking forward to reading Pegasus, her most recent novel. Now that I have... I'm honestly not sure how to judge it. I like the world and the characters, but this is very clearly not a complete story: it's the first part of one book, in much the same way that The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers are. So I could grumble that "Not much happened" or that "The pace was slow", but I don't think that I felt frustrated in those ways until I hit that last page and knew that I had to wait to find out what happened next.
( As usual, I'll stick details behind a cut. )

So I'm not sure where that leaves me as far as a recommendation to others. Sadly, I suspect that I may leave it at "Hold off on reading this until the rest of the story is published." Pegasus has all the makings of a worthy tale, but it simply isn't finished, and I think it will be more enjoyable once it is.

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[1] McKinley's Damar books (The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown) were in my constant rereading rotation from around 5th-9th grade, and Sunshine is still one of my favorite books from the past five or ten years. All three are worth reading, and the first two especially are fantastic for kids as soon as they're able to read them.