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Time of War (Deverry Cycle Westlands 3)

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A Time of War: Days of Blood and Fire is another of Katherine Kerr's wonderful novels of Deverry and the Westlands. It is a classic celtic fantasy, full of reincarnation, dweomer (magic), and more. Jahdo, a ratcatcher's son from north of Deverry, volunteers to travel with Meer, an eyeless bard of the people known as the Horsekin. Jahdo's decision pulls him into a web of dweomer and war, preventing him from returning to his parents. This book has all of our favorite characters from Katherine Kerr's other books, like Jill, Rhodry, and Dallandra. I would reccomend it to fans of Katherind Kerr, but make sure you read the earlier books in this series first!

a time of war is written in the eloquent style of katherines other deverry novels. following the bloodline of rhodry maelwaaed and jill cullyn of ceermoors daughter. if you liked the others in this series you will undoubtedly like this one. make sure you've started this series with the first book darkspell however.

I've been reading this series since 1998, and love it. Having it available in eBook format is a fantastic plus; I'm on limited space, and need to cut back on the physical volumes.

Unfortunately, this Kindle edition - unlike the physically printed "dead tree" edition - is marred by myriad typos and formatting errors. Some of them are minor (using the wrong apostrophe for abbreviations; hyphenation marks where they don't belong); some are more significant (spelling mistakes, probably from OCR errors that weren't caught on a proof-read; poor text flow - missing paragraph breaks and similar.)

The book itself - indeed, the entire series - is a fantastic read, and well worth the asking price. Sadly, the eBook edition needs more polish before it can be called a properly finished product. The same applies to the other three books in the Westlands cycle of the overall series (I haven't yet bought the other 11 books for my Kindle.)