By the Mountain Bound, Elizabeth Bear
By the Mountain Bound, Elizabeth Bear
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By the Mountain Bound

Author: Elizabeth Bear

Narrator: Ruth Urquhart, Antony Ferguson

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/18/2018

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

For five hundred years the immortal Children of the Light, einherjar and valkyrie, have lived together in the North of Valdyrgard. They were born out of the Sea, each with a shining crystal sword in his or her hand; they are Angels of Light created in the formation of a new world. But three have come before them, from the death-throes of the old world, Midgard: the world-girdling Serpent, Bearer of Burdens; the Wolf Fenris, eater of the Sun, who now takes the form of an einherjar; and his demon sister, stealer of souls.

The Children spend their days feasting, fighting, hunting, and guarding their human charges. But one dreadful day a woman is washed up from the sea, a Lady who is not mortal, though she is not valkyrie either. Thus begins the breaking of the Children of the Light, the tarnishing of their power, and the death of Valdyrgard.

By the Mountain Bound is a prequel to Elizabeth Bear's highly acclaimed All the Windwracked Stars, and tells the painful tale of love and betrayal, sorcery and battle, that led up to the day when Muire was left alone in the snow at the end of the world.

About Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series, the Edda of Burdens series, and coauthor (with Sarah Monette) of the Iskryne series. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maggie on December 29, 2014

This book is 2nd in a series....so those of you who read it first, well, you arent supposed to get it, it is 2nd in a series! What part of that is so hard to understand?? The world-building already happened! If you decided to skip it, that is on you, not the book! (One of my rants is people who rate......more

Goodreads review by Megan on September 22, 2017

When I first read All the Windwracked Stars, I liked it quite a lot, but I never felt quite like I entirely understood the world or what was going on. In that book, Elizabeth Bear throws you in at the deep end, and I was always working to try to put together how the world had gotten to the place it......more

Goodreads review by Ms_prue on November 10, 2017

Like, not so much drowning in feelings, more like losing a pitched battle with feelings by the edge of an ocean in winter, and the battered corpse of my feelings being gently covered in silent, smothering snow*. Either way my feelings are disappearing under a lot of water but there's an important te......more

Goodreads review by Rosu on January 03, 2015

"I really liked it." Wow, this was brutal. By the Mountain Bound is a sequel/prequel to All the Wind-Wracked Stars. Prequel in that it all happens chronologically earlier, prequel in that it was published second and assumes knowledge of the first. It assumes a lot of knowledge of the first. See, this......more

Goodreads review by K.S. on November 22, 2022

A epic tale told from the perspective of the Wolf (Mingan), the Historian (Muire), and the Warrior (Strifbjorn). How the Wolf and the Historian once loved the Warrior, the Warrior loved the Wolf enough to surrender his power for him. How the Wolf was corrupted and seduced into betraying the waelcryg......more