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Recommended Reading
I'm writing this as a public service annoucement. If you haven't read Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy stop what you're doing right now and go read them. Then once you realize you can't stop thinking about them and wondering how the story keeps unfolding, you can pick up the other books written in that universe and revist the old friends you've made in the first three books. And make some new ones along the way.
When people ask me my favorite book my answer is, almost without fail, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I reread that book about once a year. But if anyone would ever ask about my favorite series it would hands down be The Black Jewels trilogy. From the time two of my dear friends handed the first book to me until just moments ago when I finished the latest book from that universe I have been in love with the characters, the settings, the story arcs, the humor, everything.
Every book in the series has made me laugh, cry, get angry, weepy, and always always made me happy. I can't wait for the next one and the next and I devour them in mere days whenever a new one appears (which isn't nearly fast enough!) I just finished the latest, Shalador's Lady, in two days.
It's high fantasy, which I know isn't to every body's tastes, but I love the world this author has build. The characters are like us but yet different from us in small but meaningful ways. The world has multiple races, each with a different life span and with different strengths and weaknesses but a unifying system as well. Each race has witches and Queens, warlords, and Priests/Priestesses. And within each of those castes the person's power is signified by the color of the jewel the person wears. While the explanation sounds complicated the books make it very easy to understand. The world is rich and complex with wonderful nuances.
I can't find the words to express just exactly why I love these stories so much. Which is why I'm going to settle for telling each and every one of you to read the books (the first is Daughter of the Blood) and learn for yourself why I can't explain it clearly.
When people ask me my favorite book my answer is, almost without fail, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I reread that book about once a year. But if anyone would ever ask about my favorite series it would hands down be The Black Jewels trilogy. From the time two of my dear friends handed the first book to me until just moments ago when I finished the latest book from that universe I have been in love with the characters, the settings, the story arcs, the humor, everything.
Every book in the series has made me laugh, cry, get angry, weepy, and always always made me happy. I can't wait for the next one and the next and I devour them in mere days whenever a new one appears (which isn't nearly fast enough!) I just finished the latest, Shalador's Lady, in two days.
It's high fantasy, which I know isn't to every body's tastes, but I love the world this author has build. The characters are like us but yet different from us in small but meaningful ways. The world has multiple races, each with a different life span and with different strengths and weaknesses but a unifying system as well. Each race has witches and Queens, warlords, and Priests/Priestesses. And within each of those castes the person's power is signified by the color of the jewel the person wears. While the explanation sounds complicated the books make it very easy to understand. The world is rich and complex with wonderful nuances.
I can't find the words to express just exactly why I love these stories so much. Which is why I'm going to settle for telling each and every one of you to read the books (the first is Daughter of the Blood) and learn for yourself why I can't explain it clearly.
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