Daggerspell
(category: fantasy)book 1 of Deverry by
Katharine Kerr
published by GraftonBooks in 1986/93Nick read a library book, in February 2010
Nick's rating: 8 out of 10
Nick's opinion:
I was reading The Road, which -- as far as I had read till then -- was solid misery... and I turned to Daggerspell to stop the feelings of despair. So I may be biased. But I certainly did enjoy this book! Sword and sorcery, heroic good guys -- and gals -- and a promise of greater things in the future. The story covers a group of "etheric doubles" -- souls -- who follow their "wyrd" -- or fate -- by being reborn until they get things right. It was hard to remember who was who (whom?!) in each of the three incarnations in the book; they had different names and only one or two mentions of their "original" characters. (If only I'd known about the cross-reference at the end of the book!) So, I simply accepted that each adventure was somehow related -- and enjoyed the final one, where there was a more happy conclusion. Good enough, I thought, to look forward to finding more books in the Deverry series.
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