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Title: The Bristling Wood (Deverry) by Katharine Kerr ISBN: 0-553-28581-5 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Breathtaking Fantasy
Comment: *Shakes her head* I'm in utter shock that anyone could ever slightly diss this book. Filled with an intricate plot and devestating scenes, this goes on my favorite list. This book series does not go from 'beginning to end', like the traditional, but as Kerr explains, she borrows a Celt tradition. The story will get told, just not in a straight and narrow path. The story focuses on a saddening love story, kidnapping (on two counts), the past lives of our favorite characters, and a century old dweomer, or magic, worker living for the sole reason to atone for past sins. Read this book. It's worth your time and your money, a hundredfold at least.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fans Of "Mists of Avalon" Should Not Overlook This Series.
Comment: After an uneven start in "Daggerspell," Katharine Kerr has continued to build upon and expand the characters and world of Deverry, and with "Bristling Wood," the third book of the octet, has brought her storytelling talents to full maturity. Description, while lacking the depth of a Jordan or Martin, is nonetheless detailed and vivid, characterizations diverse and singular, and the secondary characters have begun to contribute significant roles to the story, greatly enriching the tale. With this volume Kerr's series must begin to be considered as a contender among the few truly notable works of fantasy fiction, and I expectantly look forward to reading the rest of the eight to see if the story fulfills its undeniable promise. Fans of "The Mists of Avalon" would be making a mistake in ignoring celtic Deverry.
Rating: 5
Summary: a time to avert war, and a time to fight a war to the finish
Comment: For the profit of kings, well did he attack the hosts
of the country, the bristling wood of spears,
the grievous flood of the enemy.
- The Gododdin of Aneirin, Stanza A 84
This volume interleaves two skeins of history: the 'present' (Jill and Rhodry's time) and the last years of the Time of Troubles (the civil wars between Cantrae, Cerrmor, and Eldidd, all of whom had claims to the high kingship of all Deverry). The Time of Troubles thread began in _Darkspell_, but picks up here a generation or so later in the course of the wars of that terrible era.
In the present, Salamander has determined that the mysterious ring of dwarven silver is destined for Rhodry. But Rhodry's fate is that of Aberwyn - his brother's "barren" ex-wife, now married to another man, has just given birth to her first son, so Rhodry's recall from exile is the only way to avert civil war over the rhan. The ring is his from his blood-father, but he's heir to the rhan through his legal father. This story is continued in _The Dragon Revenant_ - Salamander's puzzle of how to get the ring into Rhodry's hands without destroying his claim to the rhan.
In the past, Maddyn (later Rhodry) has been wounded unto death in his lord's last charge, and as an outlawed man, has no choice but to turn mercenary. Here we have the founding of the silver daggers, and the beginning of the thread that will later lead to the forging of the ring. Maddyn's story continues in _A Time of Omens_, _The Red Wyvern_, and _The Fire Dragon_, and is concluded in _A Time of Exile_.
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Title: A Time of Exile: A Novel of the Westlands by Katharine Kerr ISBN: 0553298135 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Time of Omens: A Novel of the Westlands (Deverry) by Katharine Kerr ISBN: 0553290118 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Days of Blood and Fire: A Novel of the Westlands (Deverry) by Katharine Kerr ISBN: 0553290126 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Days of Air and Darkness (Deverry) by Katharine Kerr ISBN: 0553572628 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr ISBN: 0553565214 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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