When Passion Play was first released in hardcover back in 2010, it had a far more accurate cover art than this mass market paperback reissue. This particular cover indicates an action heroine in the usual "stare at my butt while I wield a dagger and glare angrily at you for staring at my butt" co...
I picked this book up at a dollar store, and finally had the time to open it. Passion Play reads like a historical novel mixed with an Arabian nights tale, except the country described is purely fictional. There's the story of women as property, of the haves and the have-nots, of the powers of ...
3.5 stars...so I'm rounding up.Fox and Phoenix was a great little story. I think what stood out to me most was the wonderful world building. Everything about the world of Long City and the Phoenix Empire (and everything lying in between) was very well fleshed out and felt like a plausible history...
Darkness pressed in upon her; a sour smell permeated the air. The other two, the soldier and her friend from the pleasure house, spoke in soft tones. Something about the wisdom of setting a wooden beam across the door. Valara hardly cared. The exhilaration that had carried her from the prison thr...
One story soon turned into three, with the hope of someday writing the fourth and final chapter of this braided tale. The list of friends and editors who helped me along the way numbers close to infinite. My thanks go out to Greg Feeley for his thorough and uncompromising critique of the first st...