This is a collection of short stories from the Lackey’s Valdemar universe. Some of the stories are better than others. My favorites were Heart’s Choice by Kate Paulk and Heart’s Own by Sarah A. Hoyt. Although both stories are written by different authors, they take place in the same village (not jus...
If you are looking for a book that will give you an in-depth look at Hatshepsut, this may not be a novel for you. If you are looking for a book that will give you an in-depth look at the world around Hatshepsut, read this.Hatshepsut is not really the star of this story. The reader gets to see Hatshe...
Out of Avalon edited by Jennifer Roberson is a collection of Arthurian short stories by various authors. One story entitled The Heart of the Hill is set in Marion Zimmer Bradley's version of Avalon and takes place sometime in the middle of The Mists of Avalon during Morgaine's training to be a pries...
I had read one book by Judith Tarr before this, Lady of Horses--and it wasn't a happy experience. I was most irked by it being one of those stories that thinks creating a strong female character means making almost every male character a jerk, and the novel struck me as more feminist pre-hist...
Enjoyable beginning, but it collapses into Dead Serious High Fantasy Stuff at the end, with a consequent decrease of liveliness and immediacy. And I usually love Dead Serious High Fantasy Stuff. It just doesn't feel well-integrated here.I would love a book where the profligate promiscuous wastrel ...
Vadin is a squire, new to the service of Han-Ianon. His greatest wish is to serve Moranden, greatest warrior in the land and bastard son to the king. The king is old and knows he nears the end of his reign, and so day after day he stands on the battlements, hoping that his daughter will return home...
Usually when you read a story that involves French and English magic it's usually with a point of view of good Saxons and evil Normans, this turns some of those concepts on their head and plays with an idea of bringing magic back to England with the invasion. The Saxon Christians are suppressing ma...
William the Conqueror is dead and his son Red William inherits. His younger brother Henry along with Edith, princess of Scotland find their lives entangling along with their magic. The magic that is being supressed by the Saxon religious. This is a direct sequel to Rite of Conquest and actions i...
Some good and some middling stories in this set of stories about people who were famous and what if they took different paths in their lives. Interesting but sometimes I think they tried too hard.
An interesting history of Gerbert of Aurillac later Pope Sylvester in the years before 1000 ad. About him and magic and politics and it reads like history as most Judith Tarr novels do.
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