Journal Entry 1 by appaloosatb from Rochester, Minnesota USA on Friday, March 13, 2009

(second copy)

Book Description:

A whisperjewel from Gwen Delvano calls Dirk t'Larien across space and beyond the Tempter's Veil to Worlorn, a dying Festival planet of rock and ice. Warlorn is slowly drifting through twilight to neverending night; as the planet sinks into darkness, so its inhabitants face annihilation.

Seven years ago, on Avalon, Gwen was Dirk's lover, his Guenevere; now she wears the jade-and-silver bond of Jaantony Riv Wolf high-Ironjade Vikary, a barbarian visionary, an outcast from his own people for his acts of violence. And Garse Janacek, Jaan's *teyn*, his shieldmate, is also bound to Gwen -- in hatred. Dirk, a rogue and a wanderer, is called to be saviour of the three who are bonded together in love and hate.

But in breaking their triangle, he could lose all . . .

 

Journal Entry 2 by appaloosatb at BookObsessed VBB, BookObsessed Swap -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, September 03, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (9/3/2009 UTC) at BookObsessed VBB, BookObsessed Swap -- Controlled Releases

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Mailing to Tribefan from the SF/F VBB. Enjoy!

Released as part of the Ultimate Challenge. 

Journal Entry 3 by Tribefan from Lakemore, Ohio USA on Friday, September 11, 2009

Arrived safe and sound! 

Journal Entry 4 by Tribefan at Given to fellow Bookcrosser for Wild Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, July 22, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (7/22/2010 UTC) at Given to fellow Bookcrosser for Wild Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 5 by nimrodiel at Evanston, Illinois USA on Sunday, August 01, 2010

Tribe, Your fantastic box made it here safely!

This one will get set into my TBR pile as I've heard very good things about it and never got a chance to read it. 

Journal Entry 6 by nimrodiel at Evanston, Illinois USA on Monday, February 06, 2012

I had a hard time getting into this book. Author George R.R. Martin is among my favorite authors. He is well known for the depth of his characters and the worlds they live in. However, most likely due to the shortness of this story both fell flat

I loved the idea Warlorn, a world whose orbit is taking it out of reach of the sun, and slowly dying. Populated by an abandoned festival world built to celebrate all of the member planets of the federation of planets, each civilization built a city to celebrate their culture, and history, and the plant and animal life from their planets. After the festival ended, and as the planet moves further from the life sustaining sun, the living creatures and remaining people on the planet are slowly dying, the cities falling into ruins with disrepair.

This was the part of the story I loved. The descriptions of the world, the exploration of the ecosystem, the look at how the world was slowly dying and the changes that were coming as the world grew colder.

The actual plot, with Dirk t'Larien coming to rescue Gwen Delvano after receiving the whisperjewel he had given her years before I didn't care for at all. We are introduced to Gwen who is bound to her love Jaantony Riv and his teyn Garse. I thought that there was so much promise in the culture of the Highborn. But, concepts of their culture are introduced and not really explained well during the span of the story. There is an appendix at the end with break downs of terms and cultural references. However, there is nothing to tell the reader it is there until the end of the book when you turn the page and find it.

I am interested in reading more science fiction offerings by this author. I've loved almost all of the fantasy of his I've read in the past, and this was almost as good, just not what I've come to expect from George R.R. Martin.

I'm sending this to elsi who took it out of a VBB