Sword-Singer

Author	Mercedes Lackey
ISBN	0886774144

Skimmed the last 25%

It started out promising but then it crashed, hard and fast, and somehow just kept getting worse. This book is like that awkward kid who tries too hard to fit in with the cool kids: cringe-worthy and embarrassing. I can see what it was trying to do, but to say it's been done better...

Author	Elizabeth Haydon
ISBN	0812570812

The brilliant new saga is born ...

Rhapsody is a woman, a Singer of some talent, who is swept up into events of world-shattering import. On the run from an old romantic interest who won't take no for an answer, Rhapsody literally bumps into a couple of shady characters: half-breeds who come to...

Author	Andre Norton
ISBN	0812511751

Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised...

Author	Melanie Rawn
ISBN	0330328980

Is this where George R.R. Martin got his inspiration for a huge cast of characters that get killed? An island invaded from across the 'pond' by ruthless barbarians? I wish Rawn would stop killing people I like. I wish Martin would stop killing people I like.

I have been spoiled by less realistic...

Author

Jeffe Kennedy

An Unquiet Heart
Alone in her tower, Princess Oria has spent too long studying her people’s barbarian enemies, the Destrye—and neglected the search for calm that will control her magic and release her to society. Her restlessness makes meditation hopeless and her fragility renders human...

Author

Jeffe Kennedy

A Play For Power
Princess Oria has one chance to keep her word and stop her brother’s reign of terror: She must become queen. All she has to do is marry first. And marry Lonen, the barbarian king who defeated her city bare weeks ago, who can never join her in a marriage of minds, who can never even touch...