Covenants: A Borderlands Novel by Lorna Freeman
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451459806/103-7107803-4288653?v=glance&n=283155
A summary review here
Great book. I loved this one. Like the guy who wrote the review on Amazon, I thought for sure the author had many published books. Turns out this is her first and a second was just published in Feb.'06.
No romance in this one, yay. Just great characters (some are female btw), the main chararacters life in the military, meeting up w/ a magical being and many political court politics. Standard fantasy fare but the delivery is good. I loved how the main character thinks asides in parens. A writer after my own heart.
Rabbit, the main character has run away from the Border to join the army. He's been in the army for 5 yrs. Just a farmer boy is his line. He doesn't really let on about his past growing up in the Border towns. The Border towns are thought to be half myth, half backwards hicks out there. The myths are that there are magicals living there. Talking trees, talking animals, elves, fairies, the works. Well, there are. The denizens don't really believe it tho and Rabbit doesn't force the issue ever. He's the youngest son of a family of 8 kids, he is the 7th child. His parents left court to become farmers and yes, he is in line for the throne but has been raised to be just a farmers kid. His parents left court to live a simple life and so he feels the same.
Rabbit is found by a Magical (a large talking cat) who makes a convenent with him for food. Simple eh? Not so, as all of a sudden Rabbit is thrust into a role he's never wanted, attention from the court. Compounding his unwillingness to be anything more than a simple farm boy is his mage powers beginning to manifest. He is feared by his old company because of his new found Cat friend and his new powers that appear willy-nilly. He is bewildered and uncomfortable with all of the court intrigue and also finds himself the target of a number of assinations. All fail.
The band finds plots within plots and must travel back to the Borders to treaty with yet another king...an elvin king.
Yes, Rabbit survives all of the intrigue and find out many answers to his past as well as the countries past.
A summary review here
Great book. I loved this one. Like the guy who wrote the review on Amazon, I thought for sure the author had many published books. Turns out this is her first and a second was just published in Feb.'06.
No romance in this one, yay. Just great characters (some are female btw), the main chararacters life in the military, meeting up w/ a magical being and many political court politics. Standard fantasy fare but the delivery is good. I loved how the main character thinks asides in parens. A writer after my own heart.
Rabbit, the main character has run away from the Border to join the army. He's been in the army for 5 yrs. Just a farmer boy is his line. He doesn't really let on about his past growing up in the Border towns. The Border towns are thought to be half myth, half backwards hicks out there. The myths are that there are magicals living there. Talking trees, talking animals, elves, fairies, the works. Well, there are. The denizens don't really believe it tho and Rabbit doesn't force the issue ever. He's the youngest son of a family of 8 kids, he is the 7th child. His parents left court to become farmers and yes, he is in line for the throne but has been raised to be just a farmers kid. His parents left court to live a simple life and so he feels the same.
Rabbit is found by a Magical (a large talking cat) who makes a convenent with him for food. Simple eh? Not so, as all of a sudden Rabbit is thrust into a role he's never wanted, attention from the court. Compounding his unwillingness to be anything more than a simple farm boy is his mage powers beginning to manifest. He is feared by his old company because of his new found Cat friend and his new powers that appear willy-nilly. He is bewildered and uncomfortable with all of the court intrigue and also finds himself the target of a number of assinations. All fail.
The band finds plots within plots and must travel back to the Borders to treaty with yet another king...an elvin king.
Yes, Rabbit survives all of the intrigue and find out many answers to his past as well as the countries past.
posted by vivage @ 7/31/2006 06:45:00 PM
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