Daughter of the Desert [Paperback]

Noel-Anne Brennan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2006

A new romantic epic from the author of The Blood of the Land.

The author of the acclaimed fantasies The Sword of the Land and The Blood of the Land brings readers this tale of a young noblewoman and a prince whose unlikely alliance must defeat the savage magic of a dangerous land.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Ace (March 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441013945
• ISBN-13: 978-0441013944
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,106,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Noel-Anne Brennan is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Rhode Island. She has had poetry published and has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New London Day and the Sunday Magazine section of the Providence Journal. She is the author of the non-fiction "The Goodspeed Opera House", Waverly Press, 1972,fiction "Winter Reckoning", Donald Grant, 1986, "The Sword of the Land", Ace Books, 2003 and "The Blood of the Land", Ace Books 2004, and "Daughter of the Desert", Ace Books 2006. She was a finalist for the Romantic Times Award for "The Sword of the Land" in 2003. She teaches Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island, and lives with her family in southern Rhode Island. Occasionally, in her spare time, she sleeps.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing- 2 and 1/2 stars, April 23, 2006

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loonigrrl (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daughter of the Desert (Paperback)

After reading Brennan's The Sword of the Land, I was really looking forward to this book, but I finished Daughter of the Desert frustrated and disappointed. The heroine, Forental, learns that she is not who she believed that she was and must journey to the distant city of Dreffir to save her people. Her inner struggle to come to terms with her heritage and her new powers was, if not a new idea, interesting enough.

Along the way she meets up with Prince Erba who is running from his brother's assasins. I wanted to like Erba, but I couldn't. He was complicated enough, trying to do the right thing while plagued with self doubt, fear, and prejudice. But his unlikeable qualities outweighed his likeable ones and I really couldn't sympathize with him at all.

Forental and Erba spend the entire book traveling to Dreffir, encountering many many many obstacles along the way. Too many. There were so many obstacles that I became frustrated because I just wanted them to reach Dreffir so that the real story could begin. Except that the story didn't begin at Dreffir, it ended there, presumably so that Brennan can write a sequel. It really just felt like I read half a book that ended just where it started to pick up. This book draws us into this pivotal city where Forental would come into her powers and take them back to her homeland and bridge her people together to bring peace to the land. Except, none of that happens. It just ends when they reach Dreffir with Forental's sudden change of heart about her heritage and her new powers, and Erba's too late, anticlimatic realization about his own heritage and his feelings toward Forental.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please email Penguin Books (Ace/BErkley) to get sequel, September 25, 2007

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M. Verdecchia - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daughter of the Desert (Paperback)

This was an awesome book. Engaging and fascinating. Somehting different. However, the publisher has pulled the sequel, I found out from the author today :(. If we want a chance at a sequel, we need to write/email the publisher to let it be heard we want one! Can you help?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Listen to the Reviews, June 1, 2006

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Grace (Alameda, US, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daughter of the Desert (Paperback)

The last two reviewers stated it perfectly. This book is good, but I wish it had more character development and moral trials, stuff like that. "Sword of the Land" and "Blood of the Land" were amazing books,with Sword of the Land being one of my favorite novels, so I had high hopes for "Daughter of the Desert." Though not as spectacular as I expected, it's still a page-turner, and I will most definitely read the sequel as soon as it comes out.