Really like tarot or skip a lot ..Political Geography appendix of clarifies puzzling symbols, enclosing alien conversations - would've helped to know for previous two. Herald the Healer, high aura Outworlder Flint descendant from infamous planet Andromeda Slash /my next client .. needs me to exercise a ghost from his castle/, eases passing of quadpoint Smallbore :: I perceive terrible pain for you, worse than that of death itself :: p 27. On a human world, the Duke of Kador defends his lovely daughter Psyche from accusations of possession that killed her mother. Whirl, the Enemy Witness, Earl of Dollar, is honorable, and agrees that her Kirlian aura fluctuates from "glow in the gloom" p 143 to "even in daylight". Furious Prince orders her burnt, sends crocodile-like Duke of Qaval to besiege, who calls "treachery .. tactics" p 122. (view spoiler)[Qaval invades castle - clothes Kador dead in Qaval armor, hides in Kador armor, sails back across moat in Kador barge, digs under castle, ramps over moat. (hide spoiler)]
This book was not as good as the previous two. It doesn't really start to get interesting until the second part of the book. The first half is just setup for the more interesting adventures, that come later, and these adventures don't stack up very well to the ones that came before. It's nice to learn more about the world, and to discover what the ancients were really like, but I deduced who the ancients were far before the end and it didn't make me feel smart, it was just obvious. It also doesn't wrap up very satisfactorily. It basically ends with a blurb saying read my next series! Which, b the way is the Tarot series which I remember enjoying, though I remember very little about it. The next two books in the series apparently come before this one chronologically, which if I had known I would have read them first. Still, since I have read the previous book recently it should be fine.
