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msjb22's review against another edition
3.0
I liked it, but got confused because I read it after reading "The Eagle and the Nightingale" and "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" (both in the Bardic Voices series, books 3 and 4 respectively according to the covers), and only found out when I started reading this book that it describes events that happened before those two books. I would have preferred to read them in the order of actual events, rather than by overall series...
serena_dawn's review against another edition
2.0
I have to say that is ugly and offensive cover art by Darrell K. Sweet! Who did the cover art for The Wheel of Time. He was also the illustrator for the well-known Xanth series by Piers Anthony, the Saga of Recluce series by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and the Runelords series by David Farland as well as the original cover artist for Stephen R. Donaldson's series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
The couple, who I can only assume to be Raven and Magpie are struggling through a fire to reach the other side of a river - something like that scene did happen, but Magpie was well aware and moving with Raven; she did not have a vacant doll like expression while being carried bridal style over the threshold of a river.
No, she didn't - but that sums up my interest of this book throughout reading and finishing it. So why finish reading it? Notes for how not to write a book.
The setting is prior to electricity, yet somehow there is decidedly modern slang unexpectedly thrown in - along with what could be modern inventions; which shows just how much the writers didn't care to make a story happen. Which is a great irony considering how hard the book actors and musicians are trying pull off this theater play, despite what "the Church" might wish otherwise. The Church might be better explained to be the writers.
The couple, who I can only assume to be Raven and Magpie are struggling through a fire to reach the other side of a river - something like that scene did happen, but Magpie was well aware and moving with Raven; she did not have a vacant doll like expression while being carried bridal style over the threshold of a river.
No, she didn't - but that sums up my interest of this book throughout reading and finishing it. So why finish reading it? Notes for how not to write a book.
The setting is prior to electricity, yet somehow there is decidedly modern slang unexpectedly thrown in - along with what could be modern inventions; which shows just how much the writers didn't care to make a story happen. Which is a great irony considering how hard the book actors and musicians are trying pull off this theater play, despite what "the Church" might wish otherwise. The Church might be better explained to be the writers.
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