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evakristin's review against another edition
4.0
After the two first books of the Westlands series failed to blow me away, I'm happy to say I found this one a lot more absorbing. Unfortunately it seems to have come to the cost of it loosing some of the aspects that made the earlier Deverry books stand apart. Days of Blood and Fire is a good fantasy novel, but it's also a more typical one. The story I just finished reading could have happened in many of the fantasy worlds I'm acquainted with. I miss the wildfolk, who are hardly mentioned. Jill's little gnome added magic and charm to the world of Deverry!
I do like how our heroes aren't all powerful. Even though Jill was thaught by Nevyn and has studied by her self and under the exiled island elves, she still doesn't master the kind of dweomer that Dallandra uses. That makes sense. Also I like how Kerr makes a point out of how Rhodry is not a forester, and that after growing up on horse back he even has trouble walking for longer distances! Lots of fantasy writers seem to assume that people living in a medieval time just automatically could survive in wild nature, even if they were city people. I'm very pleased Kerr didn't fall into this trap.
I do like how our heroes aren't all powerful. Even though Jill was thaught by Nevyn and has studied by her self and under the exiled island elves, she still doesn't master the kind of dweomer that Dallandra uses. That makes sense. Also I like how Kerr makes a point out of how Rhodry is not a forester, and that after growing up on horse back he even has trouble walking for longer distances! Lots of fantasy writers seem to assume that people living in a medieval time just automatically could survive in wild nature, even if they were city people. I'm very pleased Kerr didn't fall into this trap.
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