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I read the first book in the series, "the Curse of the Mistwraith" and started on the second, "The Ships of Merior".  I like the way she writes, I like a long series with big fat books that has a definite ending (8 books so far I think, with one more planned), and she has set up an interesting world,  However, as of 50 or so pages into the second ( Read more... )

The Queen of the Dawn - PartVI

This story was inspired by Arthurian legends and other medieval European folklore, "Tithonus" (1859), a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as the ancient Greek myth about Eos, the goddess of the dawn who loved the mortal Prince Tithonus of Troy, plus my addiction to George R. R. Martin's Song of ( Read more... )

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The Queen of the Dawn - Part V

This story was inspired by Arthurian legends and other medieval European folklore, "Tithonus" (1859), a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as the ancient Greek myth about Eos, the goddess of the dawn who loved the mortal Prince Tithonus of Troy, plus my addiction to George R. R. Martin's Song of ( Read more... )

The Queen of the Dawn - Part IV

This story was inspired by Arthurian legends and other medieval European folklore, "Tithonus" (1859), a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as the ancient Greek myth about Eos, the goddess of the dawn who loved the mortal Prince Tithonus of Troy, plus my addiction to George R. R. Martin's Song ( Read more... )

Hello:

I just posted Part I of a new original fic called The Queen of the Dawn.
It's a scary fairy tale inspired by Arthurian legends and other medieval European folklore, the poem "Tithonus" (1859) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as the ancient greek myth about the goddess of the dawn, Eos, and her mortal lover Prince Tithonus of Troy, and my ( Read more... )

I got all four of these books for Christmas, and blew through them.  Excellent, though the last one felt as if it was hurried into print (things a once-over should have caught, like an event occurs where you know someone is not present, and that someone later reports on the event as if they were there, someone spreads out a map on their lap when ( Read more... )

Return to Middle Earth: The Hobbit

Believe it or not, Peter Jackson's latest film is only indirectly responsible for my decision to re-read The Hobbit (again). The proximal cause was Tor.com's (no-doubt entirely commercial) decision to ask the redoubtable Kate Nepveu to lead a weekly, chapter-by-chapter "re-read" of the novel in conjunction with ( Read more... )

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