Alphabet of Thorns by Patricia McKillip

Okay, this was my first Patricia McKillip book. And it was pretty good. There have been fantasy books that I've read that I've found more compelling, but it was well written and had an interesting premise, free of the the traditional fantasy characters, like dragons, ogres, elves, etc. I got it from the library so that encouraged me to finish it quickly so I wouldn't have to renew. It was basically a story of a girl who was an orphan, and raised by librarians to become a scribe/translator, who, in interpreting this book written in a secret language only she can understand, finds out that her real parents are actually a king and his lover from long ago and they are going to come through time to take over the land she lives in and make her queen. In a nutshell, anyway. There's more to it than that, but I didn't want to make the world's longest run on sentence. I give it a B+.