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Impressive structure, using the idea of reincarnation and the need to pay off your debts from other pasts to show us "souls" across centuries of time. Some do pay off their debts, others grow in surprising ways, but all start from a sort of stock box of standard fantasy characters who are kept at ra...
This book came highly recommended, so I'm sorry to say that despite its strengths, it has not inspired me to seek out the 15 sequels.For a fantasy novel first written in the 80s, this has aged reasonably well, though not so well as another recent find of mine, the wonderful The Ladies of Mandrigyn. ...
Daggerspell is an epic fantasy novel built on the idea of reincarnation. If we have failed to fulfill our destiny in one life, we are compelled to return to this life in another form to do that. As I read this novel, I was confronted with my feelings about that inalienable destiny. There are some...
Kerr's Deverry series is a classic in the epic fantasy field, and it's no surprise why. World building is excellent, detailed and consistent; she does an amazing job of bringing early, almost primitive, Welsh culture to life, albeit a culture with more magical tendencies than our own. From a villag...
I had mostly eschewed reading fantasy novels before this one, unless it was written for younger readers, such as The Chronicles of Narnia or Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series. About the only exception I made for fantasy written for adults was Roger Zelazny's stuff because he didn't use the st...
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