

The Paladin
Author: C. J. Cherryh
Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/11/2020
Author: C. J. Cherryh
Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/11/2020
C. J. Cherryh has written more than seventy books, including the highly popular Foreigner science fiction series. She won the Hugo Award for her novels Downbelow Station and Cyteen, and her short story "Cassandra." She has also won the Campbell Award, Locus Award, and more.
Looking for a night in shining armor, a paragon of virtue and flawless character? An untarnished hero who is a beacon of light standing against the darkness? Look somewhere else. In a nutshell we have the main character, and exiled sword master from a china-like fantasy kingdom. A peasant girl whose......more
Moment of shame as I admit I have never read anything by C.J. Cherryh! I picked up a whole stack of her paperbacks from the used bookstore; I decided to start with The Paladin because the internet told me that it was a good standalone work. No lies! Now, it took me over a week to read this little st......more
Master Shoka (aka Lord Saukendar) fled the intrigues and betrayals of the Imperial Court nine years ago to live a hermit's life beyond its borders & (he thought) beyond its coils. Then Taizu, a peasant girl whose village and family have been slaughtered by vassals of the Imperial Regent, shows up at......more
I forced myself to finish this one because it counts for my WWE Women of Genre Fiction challenge, but I wasn't very happy about it. This isn't a great introduction to C.J. Cherryh's work, I think: it's a standalone fantasy-ish alternate history-ish story, which would normally be right up my alley. I......more
An intense but fun novel about a young woman in a Japan-ish fantasyland and her relationship with the retired swordsman who reluctantly trains her. Nowhere near as cliched as you might imagine, and full of marvelous training sequences. Not a fantasy except in the sense of taking place in a country t......more