Still fun. ( )

Unfortunately off work sick, I powered through this trilogy. They were just right for a relaxing read whilst feeling yeuch. Of the three, it was the final book I enjoyed the most - the romance of a warrior woman and a scholarly man.
It ends on a bit of a cliffhanger though and I'm not sure if there will ever be a follow up. ( )

I think I liked this one of the three the best. There's something about Ezren I like. ( )

Third in what I think of as the "Red Gloves" sequence, ties back to the previous Warlands series by this author.

She does a pretty good job of creating a fantasy world that works, more or less, for me as a fantasy reader.

I found the bad guy to be a bit over the top, and would mind more nuanced antagonists, but the female warrior heroine worked for me and while I usually have little or no use for horse nomad stories this one was better in that the horses were so supermagical and the people actually made sense to me.

Of course some of the elements were stupid utopian, but I enjoyed the ride and the poet/storyteller wounded hero. ( )

I did enjoy this one, Bethral, the lady warrior and Ezran Silvertongue, storyteller with wild magic coursing through his veins, find themselves in the plains trying to work out how to control his power and stay alive. The people of the Plains live a very rigid life and their intrusion is unwelcome. They have to survive and try to control his magic without ending up dead from the magic or the people and plotting around them.

I liked this series, found it very readable, found the second and first to be the better stories, against some others this would be 4 star material. I'm adding these to my collection. There's space for more stories in this world, this wraps up the story arc nicely. ( )