Oh this one spends so much time back in the previous storyline with the King of all Deverry and fills in some gaps that at tines answer questions and often ask more.

The main story arch doesn't move the story on much so I am looking forward to seeing what happens next.

The 10th book in the Deverry series and the second novel in “The Dragon Mage” sequence is yet another high quality entry in this long set of epic fantasy novels. As in the previous novel (and I suspect perhaps may also be the case with all of the Dragon Mage sequence) this book is split into two separate timeframes. The majority of the novel occurs in the past and takes place in Dun Deverry near the end of the great civil war. It features one of my favorite characters in the entire series, Lillorigga (“Lilli”) who is now coming into her powers with the dweomer. There are some interesting and not very predictable romantic entanglements involving Lilli, the prince, and Branoic, a silver dagger who we know better as the reincarnated Jill in the future. It’s also nice to have the unnaturally long-lived Nevyn back as a major character, a sort of Gandalf/Obi-Wan guiding hand for events unfolding in multiple past and future timeframes.

The future part of the story is less thrilling for me right now because poor Rhodry’s plot line isn’t really advancing much at all. I sometimes get the sense that the author has to do more development of things in the past to set up what will eventually happen in the future. We’ll see soon.

I'm not enjoying this group as much as the previous one. Lilli is a bit mushy and Prince Merryn doesn't seem very likable.

Great book. Just continuing on through the awesome storyline of this series.

https://fantastiskfiktion.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/sagan-om-det-magiska-landet-deverry/

9/10
This installment in the Deverry Cycle spends half the book in "current" time and half in the past at the end of the Civil Wars. Slowly, the stories from the past and connecting with the current storyline, answering seem riddles and setting new ones.

Kerr's characters are fairly well-developed and three-dimensional, so there are times the reader wants to wring their neck as and other times one wants to cheer them on. It is fascinating to compare the personalities of the characters from one incarnation to another.

And some characters remain ciphers--Evandar and the dragon, for me.

https://wordnerdy.blogspot.com/2022/03/2022-book-39.html

This little sub series is a trilogy instead of a set of four, so there are a lot of pieces in motion in this book, but I have faith Kerr will bring it all together in the third volume. Lots of magic and interpersonal problems, fewer battles and grisly action scenes, so I enjoyed this one a lot. We're now getting backstory on important pieces of jewelry and honestly, I’m here for it. A-.

2017 re read