Previous SFF Author: C.J. Cherryh
Deborah Chester is a tenured professor at The University of Oklahoma’s College of Journalism. She writes science fiction under the names Jay D. Blakeney and Sean Dalton and she writes regency romances under her own name. You can read more about her writing at Deborah Chester’s website.
The Sword is the first of a high-fantasy trilogy and is little more than a prologue for whatever follows. What I mean by that is this: in terms of actual plot development, very little happens here. Each paperback in this trilogy is about 400 pages long (1200 total), so this could easily have been a 2-book saga with little to no impact on its quality.
As for the story itself… There are some books you can read when you’re tired, some you can’t,
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Previous SFF Author: C.J. Cherryh
Pretty challenging book. Cut by half, speed up the cadence. Trying to figure out the plot, the main point of…
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…