This volume is just as enjoyable as the first; a nice mix of action and meaningful character development with some romance built in, and genuine romance not just "action movie relationship" level dalliances. This volume is a bit more formulaic than the last; the plot developments are easy to anti...
Song in the Silence by Elizabeth Kerner is a bardic high fantasy about a young woman believing in legends and finding much more than she ever hoped possible, including adventure, demons, dragons and love of an unexpected varietyThis was a Guest Post over at Once Upon A Time and I’m reposting just...
The books rarely reach the masterpiece for me even when I do selective reading of the books. This book would have made it to that if not the evil was shown a little weak. The demon of this book was weak and truly easy to defeat. I would have enjoyed it more if the despair of battle was little mor...
I landed in a fighter’s crouch—bless Jamie!—for all the good it would do me here. They just stared at me, with what I hoped was curiosity. The newcomer had moved forward a little, and the moon was higher now. I could see them both very clearly indeed. It didn’t really help. The first thing I noti...
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"Magister, your patient is awake and in distress." Berys seemed unmoved. "Can you not assist him?" "I will come, Durstan," I replied. "No need to bother the Magister. He has spent enough of his precious time with me already." I bowed to Berys and turned to leave, but he laughed and came around th...
Despair and Hope Lanen I woke, groggy, with no idea what time it might be. There was no hint of moonlight, though whether that meant she was yet to rise or had passed me by, I didn’t know. I cursed to myself as I sat hunched on the hard bed, staring into the darkness and wondering with a kind o...