Deverrey continues, but without lots of intrigue-ful baggage

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	• The Gold Falcon (The Silver Wyrm, Book 1) Katharine Kerr DAW Hardcover, 2006 - 592 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

truly ineffable...

Let's hope we don't have to wait a very long time for the continuation of this series! As with every time I pick up a Katharine Kerr book, I can't put it down. I stay up late at night fighting the sleep dweomer and end up late for work! It's well worth it!

If I had dweomer powers I would hurry up Katharine to finish the next book!

In the meantime, maybe I will re-read the whole saga since it's been years since I read the first book.

After a long silence....

Ms. Kerr finally drops this in our lap. I must say it was an enjoyable read, if a bit callow at times. Think of how Tolkien started "The Hobbit" as a child's book. "The Fellowship of the Ring" was light and airy, and each subsequent book gets more and more "dark" and "adult". Katharine Kerr writes backwards. Her books started out "dark" and "adult" and now seem airy and breezy.

One big annoyance is she has a terrible habit of turning a phrase and sticking with it continuously. All her characters "tossed his head like an angry horse" SO often that I wonder just what kind of world she's from where people actually do this. It happens - literally - on almost every page. The characters that have depth and strengths in other books in this one seem shallow and weak.

I did enjoy reading, but I felt she was just throwing us a bone.

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Deverrey continues, but without lots of intrigue-ful baggage

This book made my fingers hover over the rating... it's probably 4.5 stars.

I read the original novel in this series when it first came out in, what, the 80s? early 90s? I must have re-read it a dozen times in the years since then, because Kerr did such a wonderful job of world building. Her main characters span multiple lifetimes, and usually they do not remember what they did in an earlier incarnation. I was absolutely charmed, because the system of magic was consistent; the characters were well drawn (in an Arthurian "honor matters!" way); and it was not a predictable "oh you know how it'll end" tale.

The first several books were great, and I highly recommend that you start with Daggerspell. But the later series somehow tired me for reasons I never did figure out.

I'm happy to report that this new trilogy (one presumes?) has brought back the original magic from the first books. Nevyn and Jill do get together (yay!, after only what, 600 years) and it's fun to see the two dweomer-masters as teenagers dealing with the "but who was I? am I still that person?" identity crisis. There is humor, compassion, honor... and none of it gets in the way of telling a good story.

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Great start to the end of a great series!

I absolutely adore this series and am sad to see it coming to an end. It was horrible to wait this entire time for this book (if you followed it and saw all the pushbacks like I did), but it was well worth it. It doesn't really answer questions but it definitely sets up the next two books to tie everything together. This book, unlike the others, only stays in one timeline choosing to tell the past by using small character flashbacks that are actually told to other characters instead of that character being in that time. A definite must for any follower of the series.

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The cholera epidemic that ravaged the city of TrevHael has left many orphans in its wake, including Neb, the scribe's son, and his brother. Sent to the desolate farm of their last living relative, they soon learn that a worse plague lurks beyond the western border of Deverry. The savage Horsekin tribes, spurred on by their new goddess, Alshandra, are raiding the villages and taking slaves as the first step in their plans to destroy the nomadic Westfolk and the Deverrian farmers both. Drawn into a war for the survival of the kingdom, Neb and his soulmate Branna will face enemies they have fought before in past lives they no longer remember.

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