204. Dagger-Star (Epic of Palins, 1) – Elizabeth Vaughan, Berkley Sensation Paranormal Romance, April 2008, ISBN: 80425220610, 323p.
Featuring: Red Gloves (Red) and Josiah, Baron of Athelbryght
Synopsis (from the publisher):
After captivating readers with her Chronicles of the Warlands trilogy, Elizabeth Vaughan now returns to that world with a beguiling tale of daggers and destiny, a cold and beautiful mercenary known as Red Gloves, and Josiah, a lone fighter emerging from the torched fields and razed farms of his homeland. All Josiah knows about the mysterious woman is her dagger-star birthmark, a sign that she is destined to free the people from a ruthless usurper's reign of terror.
Comments:
A quick, easy read. It was a nightmare trying to find out series information for this book, though. It seems it is set in the same world as Vaughan's Chronicles of the Warlands (which I have not read). According to www.fantasticfiction.co.uk there will also be a Red Gloves (available in the UK/Canada this October) and White Star aka White Robes (March 2009 in the UK, April 2009 in the US). However, the author's website hasn't been updated in forever and the Amazon(.com, .ca, and .co.uk) info was didn't tell much... ::sigh::
The great gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap [Hah! It most certainly is not!], it consoles, it distracts, it excites. It gives knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is moral illumination. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Just finished...
this one and I think the Chronicles of Warlands trilogy was FAR FAR better. I struggled to finish this one at all....
But sheesh, glad you gave the series info as finding it was a total nightmare!!
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