Flight of the Renshai (Renshai Chronicles) [Hardcover]

Mickey Zucker Reichert (Author)

Book Description

Series: Renshai Chronicles | Publication Date: September 1, 2009

Return to a world of "magical battles galore" (VOYA) with Mickey Zucker Reichert's newest Renshai novel.

Prejudice against the Renshai is growing rapidly, fueled by their old enemies in the Northlands, who have convinced a faction in Erythane that the Renshai lands were stolen from them, forcing the King to banish the Renshai from the Westlands.

Shunned by Westerners and hunted by Northmen, the Renshai will face many trials before rallying together against a common enemy determined to destroy them once and for all.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Slashing swordplay, a telepathic cat, spirit-sucking spiders, dizzying genealogical complications, and three warrior brothers all lend depth and sparkle to Reichert's latest installment of her immense Renshai Chronicles saga. The hardworking, talented, and resourceful male and female warrior Renshai, now serving the royals of Béarn, never start wars but always finish them. Loosely based on Scandinavian myth, the Renshai's complex struggle against their old Northmen enemies is personalized in Renshai warrior Kevral Tainharsdatter's three adolescent sons, Saviar, Subikahn, and Calistin. Each brother battles internal and external demons to prove himself a man, while hordes of mysterious pirates serving malignant godlike giants join in opposition. Reichert's handsomely fleshed-out fictional world and animated characters make her latest book an entertaining and philosophical journey with glimmers of sorcery from mages and elves that foreshadow further Renshai adventures.

About the Author

Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, dog trainer, animal wrangler, track and soccer coach, parent, and all-around nice person as well as the author of more than fifty short stories, one illustrated novella, and more than twenty novels.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: DAW Hardcover (September 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756402735
• ISBN-13: 978-0756402730
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,436,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Glorious Read, September 4, 2009

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This review is from: Flight of the Renshai (Renshai Chronicles) (Hardcover)

Mickey Zucker Reichert manages the near impossible: coming up with new plot twists that surprise the reader yet feel completely right. Favorite characters from the previous two (also highly recommended) Renshai trilogies appear, but you don't need to have read the earlier books to appreciate this one. The characters - old and new - develop in interesting ways, and they grapple with problems personal and communal, universal and unique, in a world that, for all the fantasy elements, rings true from sheltered towns to gritty battlefields. Here's to speeding on the next book!

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, January 25, 2012

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Di - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Flight of the Renshai (Renshai Chronicles) (Kindle Edition)

This book picks up where the Renshai Chronicles left off. Another generation but still some of the same characters. I'm looking forward to more.

5.0 out of 5 stars Mickey is a swordsmans wordsmith, January 17, 2011

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NAKED TRUTH (Mountain VIew, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Flight of the Renshai (Renshai Chronicles) (Hardcover)

MZR imho has no equal in creating swordsman (and women) of peerless abilities.
She has a knack for creating believable charactors that have a richness to them and her swordplay scenes are to die for.

Here's hoping we won't have to wait too long for the next installment of this engrossing saga.