Emily reviewed on 6/29/2006 + 32 more book reviews

Very good book by the author of the Chronicals of the Cheysuli. Simply written with a vivid story. Written in the first person, detailing another world where magic and "warrior's skill" are combined into a sword-dance - usually to the death. This is the first in a six book series.

Excerpts from the back of the book: "Southron blade skill, Northern sword magic.... He was Tiger, born of the desert winds, raised as a slave and winning his freedom by weaving a special kind of magic wih a warrior's skill.... She was Del, born of ice and storm, trained by the greatest of Northern swoard masters. Now her ritual training is completed, and steeped in teh special magic of her own runesward, she had come South in searchof the young brother stolen five years before. But even Del could not master all the dangers of the deadly Punja alone..."

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