Author: Katharine Kerr
Series: The Deverry #3
Narrator: Ruth Urquhart
Unabridged: 13 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/21/2018
Katharine Kerr lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, his caregiver, and a cat. Although she spent her childhood in a Great Lakes industrial city, she became a confirmed Californian at age nine, when her family relocated there. She's the author of the Deverry series of epic fantasies, the Nola O'Grady series of light-hearted contemporary fantasy, the Runemaster duo, and a few science fiction works, mostly notably SNARE.
Very enjoyable. The past and present day Deverry stories were both compelling in this book. The past story dealt with the beginning of the Silver Daggers and Nevyn working behind the scenes to unite Deverry under one king and put an end to the civil wars ravaging the countryside. The present is a li......more
Dawnspell is a bridge book: the flashback (which begins one of my favourite sequences within sequences) is a set-up, the modern day is a set-up and nothing gets resolved before the cliffhanger at the end. It's a bit flabby, and hilariously the bad guys literally have a conversation over the fire abo......more
No original review, so this review is written after my June 2023 re-read. This book was tough. Terrible things happen to our characters, and it's hard to watch them go through it. Hard and heartbreaking. I also take some issue with how the other characters handle the disgusting rapist character in thi......more
This saga has many books, but it's composed of several parts. Book 1 to 4 are the Deverry Cycle. At the end of Book 4 (note that Bristling Wood is the US title and Dawnspell the UK title, but they are the same novel), you get a real ending. So don't hesitate to buy this book or the previous ones thi......more
