So, why did this start out being about a 30-something woman dealing with grief who got caught up in a fantasy plot, and then turn into her son’s fantasy plot? Not that I dislike Gerick, but I prefer the series I originally started reading.

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I should preface this with pointing out that I read about 100 pages at the car repair shop, waiting to find out if I'd be able to take the car home today, and read most of the rest today when not dealing with that, finances, or what to do about work if I don't have the car back before I go to work tomorrow.

My main thought is this:  How did a series ( Read more... )

Picking up soon after the end of Son of Avonar, Guardians of the Keep starts with Seri going to her brother's household to tell her sister-in-law about the events of SoA, and being asked to stay on to help with her isolated, and often hateful, nephew Gerick, while she waits for the Dar'nethi mage, Dassine, to tell her that he's healed D'Nathiel's ( Read more... )

Fourteen years ago Serianna, younger sister to the King's Champion, Tomas, was supposed to marry the newly crowned King Evard.  Instead, she married Karon, a humble antiquities dealer.  Except that Karon was secretly a survivor of Avonar, a land whose people were all but exterminated for sorcery.  In Leire, sorcerers are regarded as devils, and ( Read more... )

 anyone read Carol Berg?  I've started reading her Son of Avonar and, while I like the story(exiled noblewoman has amnesiac madman wander up to her house and decides she's keeping him, while her evil brother and his henchman hunt for him, and she hides him mostly to thumb her nose at them)  I am struggling very, very hard with the Random Infodumps ( Read more... )