| | | | | Autor | Carole Nelson Douglas
| | Tytul | KEEPERS OF EDANVANT
| | Rok wydania | 1987
| | Wydawnictwo | TOR
| | Oprawa | Miękka
| | Stan | Bardzo dobry
| | Liczba stron | 346
| There's nothing like having your cake and eating it too: this one not only wraps up the trilogy of Six of Swords and Exiles of Rynth (paperback) but begins a new trilogy entitled Sword and Circlet. This installment is independently intelligible if not particularly thrilling. Silver-eyed Torloc seeress Irissa, with her companion Kendric the skeptical Wrath-man, finally return to their home planet, Edanvant, after long wanderings. The other Torlocs - long-lived, seven-foot-tall types who crassly lord it over the diminutive locals - arrived earlier; the men, having acquired a few trifling magical talismans, have banded together against the women, who are led by the iron-willed seeress Finorian. Both groups have retreated behind magical walls to plot against each other. Among the characters that cause complications are: the owl-wolf Rynx; the cat-witch Felabba; and evil sorcerer Geronfrey, whose desire is to possess Irissa and steal her powers. At first, lrissa and Kendric move freely between the two groups, though they don't trust Finorian, who plans to use lrissa in her spells. But then lrissa's father Orvath tries to steal Irissa's talisman, the Overstone egg. lrissa flees back to the women, so the men threaten to unleash the destructive Single Tongue of Flame against them. Kendric performs various heroics, sundry others help or hinder matters, and everything turns out all right in the end. Not too much character or substance - it's hard to get a grip on whatever it is they're all arguing about; still, it's mostly harmless | | |
