

Sing the Four Quarters
Author: Tanya Huff
Series: Quarters #1
Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella
Unabridged: 15 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/31/2017
Author: Tanya Huff
Series: Quarters #1
Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella
Unabridged: 15 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/31/2017
Tanya Huff may have left Nova Scotia at three, and has lived most of her life since in Ontario, but she still considers herself a Maritimer. On the way to the idyllic rural existence she shares with her partner Fiona Patton, six cats, and a chihuahua, she acquired a degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnic—an education she was happy to finally use while writing her recent Smoke novels. Of her previous twenty-three books, the five—Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, Blood Debt—featuring Henry Fitzroy, bastard son of Henry VIII, romance writer, and vampire are among the most popular.
I have a love for 80s and 90s fantasy that I just can’t quite reach for modern fantasy. Please don’t get me wrong, there several examples of modern fantasy novels I love (Joe Abercrombie may quickly be approaching my favorite fantasy author ever) but 80s and 90s fantasy has something special that mo......more
Sing the Four Quarters is one of those books that I enjoyed reading but probably wouldn’t read again. If you’re looking for a warm, character driven fantasy story with a queer lead, you may very well want to read this one. Annice is a bard, able to work magic by singing to the kigh, the elemental spi......more
This is the first of four volumes in Huff's Quarters series, a nicely plotted and well-written high-fantasy series. She incorporates the concepts of music and magic very imaginatively, and, as always, the characterizations are excellent. I prefer her contemporary/urban fantasy books, but the Quarter......more
A bard returns to the capital to find herself the wildcard in a political plot. Huff's balance of gratifying character dynamics, distinctive characterization, and easy-reading action/political plots has grown on me. She's not a strong technical writer, and this isn't flawlessly balanced--there's som......more
I've read enough fantasy involving music-based magic that it was neat to see it treated as magic, not music. Music theory is interesting, I suppose, but not always what I want a lecture on. This also may be the first fantasy novel I've ever read where the main character's pregnancy is central to the......more