Since discovering them a couple of years back, #KatharineKerr 's Deverry series has become my fantasy comfort read; it's so easy to slip into her world with its particular catchphrases and characters that reoccur, but change, across hundreds of years of resurrections. This is the first part of her second quadrilogy, which focuses on the elves of her world. #bookstodon @bookstodon
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Book six of the apparently neverending series of Deverry novels by #KatharineKerr was a strong outing, with a perfect balance between her usual elements of ethereal high magic and low, dirty, gritty small scale violence. Would be incomprehensible to anyone not already steeped in the setting and characters, however. #Bookstodon @bookstodon #fantasy
Part 7 of #KatharineKerr 's neverending series of Deverry novels suffers a bit for being the penultimate part of her second quadrilogy, as it feels a bit more like moving pieces into place for a climactic novel than a full story in itself. It also tells its story linearly rather than jumping around centuries to follow characters' reincarnations as most of the books do. But there are pleasures here for addicts of these Celtic-inspired fantasy epics, like the deepest look yet into dwarf and horsekin cultures. @bookstodon #bookstodon
#KatharineKerr delivers on the climax of her second Deverry quadrilogy, with all the magic, battle scenes, and shocking character deaths one might wish for. Imagine George R. R. Martin, except working decades earlier and capable of ending a story, and you wouldn't be too far off.
I do have to address the cover though. This *might* be a good cover for a campy barbarian fantasy, but it's a dreadful fit for this book. Rhodry would never dress like that, nor rock a mullet! @bookstodon #bookstodon
