Holder of Lightning
by:
S.L. Farrell (author)
The major debut that introduced readers to a fantasy tour-de-force- now in paperback! Seventeen-year-old Jenna had led a peaceful life, herding sheep and tending crops, until the night she picked up a small but strangely alluring stone that would change her entire future. For what she held in...
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The major debut that introduced readers to a fantasy tour-de-force- now in paperback! Seventeen-year-old Jenna had led a peaceful life, herding sheep and tending crops, until the night she picked up a small but strangely alluring stone that would change her entire future. For what she held in her hand was Lámh Shábhála, the master stone of legend which could reawaken all the other stones of power and bring magic back to the world. And there were many among the nobility who would risk anything, including murder, to claim Lámh Shábhála for themselves.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780756401528 (0756401526)
Publish date: January 6th 2004
Publisher: DAW
Pages no: 589
Edition language: English
Series: The Cloudmages (#1)
In a Celtic world rather like Ireland of the medieval period this is a story about a peasant girl called Jenna who finds a stone, power, pain and intrigue. The story is well done with consequences to power and magic. The choices create cascades and ramifications and when there's power there's peop...