King's Blood Four (Land of the True Game, #1)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00CEGTV62
Publish date: May 6th 2013
Publisher: Gateway
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: The Books of the True Game: Peter (#1)
I first read this book in 1985, in the UK, when the three short novels that make up the series were published as a beautiful Trade Paperback under the title "The True Game". It had a huge impact on me at the time and made me a Sherri Tepper fan for life. "The Gate To The Women's Country" and "Grass"...
The storyline was something very different for me. The basic plot is that life is simply a chess match. Those that I would consider "noblemen" were called Gamesmen and had specific powers related to their position in The Game. The peasant-type characters were called Pawns and were subject to the ...