by Rosemary Kirstein
I love it when you pick up a book with neutral expectations and within a single chapter, find yourself looking for extra reading time in the day so that you can stay in the flow of the story. "The Steerswoman" gave that to me on the morning I opened it. It was an intriguing blend of the familiar (...
Delightful, fast read and a great entry to an interesting world. I saw the series (which is apparently not finished yet) being mentioned in /r/fantasy and decided that the blurb sounded interesting enough. And I am really glad I did. Looking at the genres assigned to this book my suspicions about th...
I went to the trouble of getting this one through inter-library loan and then discovered that my library owns a omnibus edition of the first two books! I guess I shouldn’t feel too badly, since the ILL folks didn’t catch it either. Anyway, I’m still going to count it for my ILL reading challenge. ...
irst published in 1989, The Steerswoman gained a small but devoted following. These poor people had to wait ELEVEN YEARS between books two and three, so I should probably quit whining. Published as ebooks in 2013, they seem to be gaining in popularity, as well they should.Rowan is a steerswoman, a ...
An engrossing world with an interesting culture. Read this as part of the Omnibus The Steerswoman's Road (The Steerswoman, #1-2).
An engrossing world with an interesting culture. Read this as part of the Omnibus The Steerswoman's Road (The Steerswoman, #1-2).
Kirstein's 'Steerswoman' series had been highly recommended to me - and did not disappoint in the slightest. It's fun, well-crafted, well-characterized adventure with an original set-up and believable culture(s). Rowan is a Steerswoman. As the title might indicate, she is adept at nautical navigatio...
The characterization is excellent and the world building is quite wonderful. When I look back on the story, things did in fact happen. But my actual experience of reading it was that nothing happened for long stretches, people just thought about stuff or sat at tables and talked to one other about ...
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