Um...I guess it was okay. I mean, if every time something of any consequence happens, good or bad, the proclamations to "Goddess, Mother" is something you enjoy, then yeah. It was okay. Aside from the inept writing and the droning on and on of similies, metaphors, and using "Otherworldly" to desc...
This book was enjoyable, but the writing was not extraordinary. A light, easy read. I rated the entire trilogy a 3, but I almost rated this book a 4 due to the last 25 pages or so. I particularly enjoyed Isolde's conversation with the arrogant envoy from "the ear of the Pope himself," "Dom Luis C...
Oh, Tristan and Isolde. There's a reason your legend isn't as well known as Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot's. Sigh.I love Rosalind Miles. Love her. Her writing is evocative, lush, vivid...I could wax poetic with superlatives all day, but suffice it to say I'll read just about anything she writes ...
Tristan held onto the reins for support, staring like the dead. With painful slowness he closed his frozen eyes then opened them again. His heart lurched wildly. The light was still there.“Look, look!” he mumbled in crazy excitement to the gray. He pointed a trembling hand. “And another over ther...
of March 22nd 1918, gazing half-hypnotised at the dishevelled beds, the stretchers on the floor, the scattered boots and piles of muddy clothing, the brown blankets turned back from smashed limbs bound to splints by filthy bloodstained bandages. Beneath each stinking wad of sodden wool and gauze ...