Warning: Warlord is the third book in a trilogy, and it must be read as such. If you haven’t read the first two books, you could probably follow the story well enough, but the emotional impact, climax, and conclusion will be seriously lacking. Luckily, Warprize and Warsworn are both fantastic reads, so if you haven’t…
I have the first book in this series, Warprize in my TBR pile and will have to move it up to the top. I wasn’t lost while reading Warsworn, but I know I missed some nuances of the story – and what a wonderful story this is. Xylara (Lara) of the land of Xy is…
I haven’t had the best of luck with Tor’s new Romantic Fantasy line, and when I picked up Warprize, I admit my expectations were low. My expectations sunk lower when I learned that the heroine is named Xylara, princess of the land of Xy – that sounds really cheesy, doesn’t it? However, it was not…
“Jane Austen meets Genghis Khan on the set of Lawrence of Arabia.” – that’s how author Kate Elliott sums up Jaran. It’s an apt description for a rich tapestry of a novel filled with adventure, romance, and clashing cultures, all combined with a certain comedy of manners sensibility about which I believe Miss Austen would…
The word these days is that publishers of romance are rather leery of putting out books that occur in uncommon periods or places. Since The Barbarian takes place in ancient Alexandria, one can only conclude that Leisure either likes to take risks or Judith French is good enough to merit one. I’m not particularly familiar…
I chose to review Forbidden primarily because the setting, Dark Ages England, fascinates me. But it took me a long time to both get into the story and understand what in the heck was going on with the characters. Readers lacking a great deal of interest in the period would likely be unwilling to invest…
George and the Virgin was exactly what I needed to read last weekend. It was fun. It was funny. It had only the teeniest, tiniest, most negligible bit of angst – just enough for character development. It has the honor of being the only book I’ve read for review this year where I did not…
In medieval times, the citizens of Markesew picked a Virgin to sacrifice to their local dragon each year and Alizon is selected. “Saint” George is a professional wrestler, who is called across time to Alizon’s castle where he is expected to slay the dragon. Upon his arrival, George finds that the dragon is not the…
Sun Wolf’s father taught him three things: Don’t mess with magic, don’t argue with drunks or fanatics, and don’t fall in love. In the course of this novel, he will do all three. The Ladies of Mandrigyn takes place in an imaginary world where a great empire has collapsed, leaving a politically unstable power vacuum….
We’ve come a long way since the Middle Ages, thankfully. Part of what made this plot work, as well as what I disliked, was the historical male perspective about women. Faith, daughter of Lord Terra, has been shamed and outcast from her home. She was attacked by a man and left scarred on her face,…
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