Kerry's Reviews > Jaran

AND she's releasing the High Road Trilogy that she previously only published under her real name Alis Rasmussen and which is set in the same universe but hundreds of years earlier.

I hope she'll release the Labyrinth Gate fantasy one-off, too.

I read Jaran much later than the other books, because I didn't realise she had changed pen names, heh.

The Labyrinth Gate and High Road ones are available for Kindle. Hopefully also elsewhere. I want to get the trilogy at the least when my book buying budget is a little healthier than it is now. I had 7 old favourites I was hanging out for as ebooks all turn up at once (the Jaran ones and M. K. Wren's Phoenix Legacy) so that blew my budget for a while.

Phoenix Legacy, too?! Oh, how did I miss THAT?!

All three are out for Kindle (again, I think they're elsewhere as well) and so is A Gift Upon the Shore. Considering we have a cross over point of books were enjoy and/or love I thought I'd mention them in case you didn't know.

I have a whole list on my currently neglected blog of the books I really want to get as ebooks (http://rocalisa.wordpress.com/2012/11... - I've updated the list but not the text). I check those authors regularly in the hope the books will show up electronically. The new publisher of the Phoenix Legacy books must have found it in a search, because they actually contacted me to let me know the books were available.

That's always fun ^^ - like the Rennefarre translation and me, where I got contacted via Goodreads by the translator, who had found me discussing the book with a fellow commenter on Cora Buhlert's blog.

... you're right we really have read a lot of the same books ^^.

The Fionnavar Tapestry is out in Canada at all the e-tailers only, from what I gather. You'd need to fake it (I have managed that at Kobo, by installing Tunnelbear - which is a VPN that offers 1 GB traffic free per month, and making an account with another e-mail and making up an address, or did I not even enter it.... I then sent from my regular Kobo account a gift card to my new account and that got credited. As long as I log in with those details, using the VPN tunnel I can then buy those books: Tunnelbear allows Canada, Australia, US and Germany as originators, I believe).

The two of you have piqued my interest now... I take it PHOENIX LEGACY is worth a read?

Estara - Thanks for the info. I will explore further.

Li - Yes, I certainly think it is. I haven't reread them recently (I was waiting for the ebooks). However, I remember finding the first one in a second hand bookshop. It sat on my shelf for six months before I started reading it. I then had to rush out and find the second and third and I read all three in four days.

It's a fascinating sf look at family and intrigue and propaganda and two very different sons and what you can do with the power of the word and swaying public opinion and vengeance and love. And science fictiony in a space opera kind of way almost, but it's set on a planet, not in space. And which of those brothers has a more valid view of what life should be like - and the people who love and support them.

Bear in mind I haven't read it in a decade at least (although it's on my keeper shelves), so I suggest reading a sample before comitting to the series.

Bear in mind I haven't read it in a decade at least (although it's on my keeper shelves), so I suggest reading a sample before comitting to the series.

I could have typed this. What she said.

Mmmm... if it's left such an impression on the both of you after all this time, I definitely have to check it out. Plus Estara's made it sound incredibly intriguing!

That's what I remember it as! ^^