"The return of one of fantasy's most exciting voices; a novel of breathtaking originality and harsh beauty."

"Awian exiles are building a settlement in the Darkling mountains, wherethe Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed in the snows and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the inmortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate."

Sent to my partner in the Happy Yorkshire Day Sweepstakes, with the cutest little book...
This writer was born in Bradford, and I hope you'll enjoy her novel!

Thank you very much for your lovely parcel. Bradford born writer, but I've never heard of her. I prepare to be educated. Looking forward to reading her book and of course the "Yorkshire Christmas" book. The kitten is real cutey too!

Not something I would have chosen myself, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, and couldn't put it down.
I will certainly be looking for others in the series!

Something different for you to read. It's worth a try.

Happy Christmas.

Thank you very much, Deltic - and very welcome surprise to find under my Christmas tree this morning :-) And the accompanying bits were fun, too!
A Very Happy Christmas and All Good Wishes for the New Year to you - and to Bookworm-lady!

I'm sorry, Deltic, but I can't get into this! I've been picking it up and putting it down for well over a week (which is a long time in terms of my usual relationships with books!) and this fantasy world still isn't taking shape in my imagination or becoming at all real for me. Although fantasy isn't my usual genre, I have enjoyed the odd few and was quite a Lord of the Rings fan in my youth, probably having read it at least as many times as I've got fingers, so I can't really explain why. It doesn't help that the viewpoint keeps changing with the frequent change of narrator .... So many characters - and I don't care what happens to any of them .... I've made it p115/311 but that's it, I'm afraid :-(

We toured around and left books in five of North Yorkshire's red telephone box community libraries/book exchanges today - getting out of the car in the sunny spells between the showers of rail, hail, sleet, snow ....

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