Scott Graham
Excellent tale of a war of trebuchets and trolls and goblins vs humans and their terrible and barely faithful corvid battle familiars. There is plenty of blood and gore to be found herein, with a soupçon of magic to aid the greatly overwhelmed humans. Galva dom Braga from The Blacktongued Thief is our protagonist, and she makes a fine and valiant knight in service to kynd. This novel is a fine introduction to the Galva you meet in TBT, and develops well her hard and soft sides and explains what was almost a trait offered in passing in Thief, of her hard stance against any type of dereliction of duty. The Daughter's War is more sober than The Blacktongued Thief, without the occasional lighter moments, and is all the better for it - making it that rara avis, a sequel (prequel) better than it's parent novel. At the very least, it answered the question raised by a line in a poem from my childhood, Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley: what do goblins do to bad children? "An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!
Excellent tale of a war of trebuchets and trolls and goblins vs humans and their terrible and barely faithful corvid battle familiars. There is plenty of blood and gore to be found herein, with a soupçon of magic to aid the greatly overwhelmed humans. Galva dom Braga from The Blacktongued Thief is our protagonist, and she makes a fine and valiant knight in service to kynd. This novel is a fine introduction to the Galva you meet in TBT, and develops well her hard and soft sides and explains what was almost a trait offered in passing in Thief, of her hard stance against any type of dereliction of duty. The Daughter's War is more sober than The Blacktongued Thief, without the occasional lighter moments, and is all the better for it - making it that rara avis, a sequel (prequel) better than it's parent novel. At the very least, it answered the question raised by a line in a poem from my childhood, Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley: what do goblins do to bad children? "An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!