Victoria Hanley is certified as a Montessori teacher and as a massage therapist. Born in California, she lives in Colorado. Hanley has two young adult children and a young-at-heart husband. Hanley’s first novel, The Seer and the Sword, was published in more than a dozen countries around the world. The winner of the Colorado Book Award, the book has also appeared on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age List, the Texas Lone Star Reading List, and the Oklahoma Sequoyah and Utah Master Lists. To learn more about Victoria Hanley, go to 
The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley
It’s hard to muster up any particularly strong feelings for The Seer and the Sword. It is your standard medieval-adventure-fantasy, with every plot development and character arc foreseeable far in advance, told in sparse and simple prose. It’s hard to be too enthusiastic about it, yet at the same time I can’t be too dismissive either.
The story revolves around two young royals: red-headed Princess Torina of Archeld, and Prince Landen, whose country of Bellandra has just been defeated by Torina’s father.
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Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the kind words, Steve! And I am very envious of that first edition!
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