Winds of Fury
10 best books like Winds of Fury (Mercedes Lackey): The Quartered Sea, Sword-Breaker, Tiger Burning Bright, Exiles' Return, The Valdemar Companion, Elvenborn, Power Lines, If I Pay Thee Not in Gold, In Celebration of Lammas Night, Bedlam Boyz
Author | Tanya Huff |
ISBN | 0886778395 |
Queen Jelena of Shkoder has decided to start her reign by commissioning a ship to undertake the exploration of uncharted waters in search of the homeland of the legendary Dark Sailor. When disaster strikes, the bard Benedikt -- who Sings only One Quarter, that of Water -- is hopelessly stranded with...
Author | Jennifer Roberson |
ISBN | 0886774764 |
*** 4.44 ***
A buddy read with my friends @ FBR Group! Because we love stubborn horses!!!
If you are able to accept that there are male-dominated macho cultures out there and they produce some very male-centered and female-demeaning cultural values as a whole, and that even members...
Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
ISBN | 0688143601 |
The House of the Tiger has skillfully ruled Merina in times of peace. But now the indomitable armies of the Emperor Balthasar stand poised to crush the vulnerable city/state. And in the enemy's midst is the gray mage Apolon -- foul necromancer who serves the Dreadful Dark . . . and whose mission it is to...
Author | Gayle Greeno |
ISBN | 0886776554 |
I liked this book. I liked the concept and the characters, but I also liked the previous two books better. Part of the reason is because Jenret was not in this one so much, but I also felt that there were some inconsistencies and that the story didn't tie together as well as it could. The story-within-a-story...
Author | John Helfers |
ISBN | 0756400376 |
Fifteen years ago, Mercedes Lackey put pen to paper to write Arrows Of The Queen, her first novel about Valdemar, a fantasy kingdom replete with magical races and magical creatures, enemies and allies both sorcerous and mundane. This ancient land of mystery is unique even among fantasy realms, for...
Author | Andre Norton |
ISBN | 0812571231 |
In this long-awaited new novel in The Halfblood Chronicles, fantasy greats Norton and Lackey tell the enthralling story of the reclusive elvenlord Kyrtian, who emerges as a hero in a world torn by politics and war. When his cousin, Aelmarkin, tries to prove that Kyrtian is unfit to run his estate, the...
Author | Anne McCaffrey |
ISBN | 0345387805 |
Yanaba Maddock's short-lived career as a company spy had ended the moment the planet Petaybee and its people had adopted her as one of their own. Now she was dedicated to keeping Intergal from exploiting and wounding--or even killing--the world she had come to love. For Intergal persisted in denying...
If I Pay Thee Not in Gold
Author | Piers Anthony |
ISBN | 0671721755 |
In the age of the Mazonians women rule through magic - and men suffer what they must. Magical creations only last for a single day (magical food is great for dieting), but that is quite long enough for casting a giant wet blanket (if you're feeling kind) over a would-be rampaging male - or a block of granite...
In Celebration of Lammas Night
Author | Josepha Sherman |
ISBN | 0671877135 |
An anthology of fantastical stories set in and around Lammas Night. In Lammas Night a young weaver is persuaded to bide a while in a small village, to make their village spells and keep the Dark at bay. The villagers give her the house of her predecessor. Now a half-seen phantom courts her. He is either her...
Author | Ellen Guon |
ISBN | 0671721771 |
I downloaded a bunch of free books from the Baen library, and I don't think a single one of them was any good, at least for my taste.
This one was--I don't know, maybe it's meant to be a middle-grade book, in which case some of the behaviour might make sense? But for an adult, it was just stupid. The...