![]() After her mother died when she was young, father and girl took to the road, living from town to town, never settling. Jill is the daughter of a Silver Dagger, a band of wandering swordsmen who fight for money, not honour. A long wait that may soon come to an end. He waits for the one who might break him free of his prison. The powerful sorcerer Nevyn broke a promise long ago and curse has trapped him ever since. Worth noting Harper Voyager is now publishing these with gorgeous new covers (I do love a good cover)Ī Broken promise, a curse and a magic beyond imagining… ![]() Here the series began in 1986 with the first connected sequence – The Deverry series. I also think a lot of what Kerr was introducing in her novels is still pretty innovative (especially when I tend to think of 80’s fantasy as a tad Tolkienesque). There are now 15 books in Katherine Kerr’s Deverry cycle, so I thought why not explore how the books evolve and change. ![]() There are some nice surprises to come plus some occasional moments showing how far we have come on in fantasy too. What impressed me about the series? Its unusual approach to flashbacks the Celtic welsh background and the main characters avoid stereotypes as the series evolved. ![]() My good friend Zoe lent me the first four a few years back and they are pretty unusual, smart and a lot of fun. ![]() For this readalong I fancied a series I only read the first four books in. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |