Wein, Elizabeth E. - The Sunbird

[oyceter]

I adored The Winter Prince, was completely indifferent toward A Coalitions of Lions, and I love this one.

Telemakos is the son of Medraut and the nephew of Goewin, but he's also the grandson of an important Aksumite politician and a cousin or close relation to the new king of Aksum. I loved Winter Prince for what it did with the Arthur mythos; I

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[delux_vivens]

it is a historical novel set in Africa! In Aksum! With details and politics and complications!

STOP THE MADNESS!!!

[oyceter]

I know! But it is! And it is awesome!

[keilexandra]

Oooh, I love MGT's Attolia trilogy. I've been ambivalent about Wein after reading other reviews, but your comparison has decided it.

[oyceter]

I highly, highly, highly rec Winter Prince. Highly. And you can probably skip over the second book; I think the Telemakos books read fine without it.

[chomiji]

I just read the first two of these on sovay's rec, and quite liked them (I want to do a re-read before I blog them). What I can't understand is how I didn't run into them before - I'm usually on the lookout for good YA fiction, including historicals.

[oyceter]

Oooo! Yay! I think I found them after a lot of recs on LJ, and now I want to pimp the Telemakos books to everyone.

[spoggly]

WAIT - there are sequels to The Winter Prince?! OMG, awesome! Not reading the review yet, because of spoilers, but I totally can't wait to see what you think about the books!

[oyceter]

Yes! There are! Though I will say that they are very, very different from Winter Prince; I think the Telemakos books work better than Coalitions because they are farther from Winter Prince and therefore less comparable, if that makes sense.