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Hilari Bell

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As far as writing is concerned, I call myself the poster child for persistence. Songs of Power, the first novel I sold, was the 5th novel I'd written. When it sold I was working on novel #13. The next to sell, Navohar, was #12, and the next, A Matter of Profit, was #9. The Goblin Wood was #6, and the first Sorahb book, Flame (later renamed Farsala: Fall of a Kingdom), will be #15. You get the picture.

My reviews: Mea culpa! I got onto Goodreads years ago, and haven't been reviewing--but I now mean to start! I should add that as writer, I tend to read a bit more critically. Or at least, when I think a book is going off the rails I usually see technical, writer problems with it. In short, any time a book stops working for me, that author becom...more


Average rating: 3.85 · 13,073 ratings · 1,078 reviews · 33 distinct works · Similar authors
Fall of a Kingdom (The Fars...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 2,454 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
The Goblin Wood (Goblin Woo...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,903 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions
Rise of a Hero (The Farsala...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 1,783 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
Forging the Sword (The Fars...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 1,632 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
The Last Knight (Knight and...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,224 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
Rogue's Home (Knight and Ro...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
Shield of Stars (The Shield...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
Player's Ruse (Knight and R...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
The Wizard Test
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Hilari Bell rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb
I’m a huge fan of the In Death series. Dallas and Peabody are my favorite cop duo—in fact, I find their relationship more interesting than Dallas and Roarke’s, but that may be just me. Or it may be because I’m a sucker for humor, and there’s more hum...more
Hilari Bell rated a book 4 of 5 stars
A Tangled Web by Mercedes Lackey
A Tangled Web
by Mercedes Lackey
read in April, 2013
I’m going to start by saying that if you haven’t discovered the 500 Kingdoms books, you really need to start with The Godmother, which is the first of the series and a favorite of mine. That said, after that first delightful tale, for me the quality...more
Hilari Bell rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Redoubt by Mercedes Lackey
I love Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series—and most of her other series as well. And while this isn’t the best book she’s ever written, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It gets off to a bit of a slow start, with mostly “daily-life” stuff in the beginning. But...more
Hilari Bell rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
read in December, 2012
This is a solid entry in a great series. Stephanie sends Grandma Mazur in undercover. Her bridesmaid dress is a nightmare...and of course, there’s a homicidal maniac out to kill her. (And Ranger’s reaction to the fact that the bridal shop kept callin...more
Hilari Bell rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb
I’m a big fan of the In Death series, and while it’s not the best of them, Delusion in Death is a good addition to a great series. The In Death books sometimes go over my violence threshold, and this book pushes it a bit, but it doesn’t pass it. I al...more
Hilari Bell rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
by Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
read in November, 2012
Loved it! I should probably start by saying that Lois Bujold is the author I want to be when I finally learn to write. And also add that if you haven't read her books previously, you should start this series with either Shards of Honor, or Warrior's...more
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"You should--she's kept the quality of that series up really well. "
Hilari Bell rated a book 4 of 5 stars
A Sunless Sea by Anne Perry
A Sunless Sea (William Monk, #18)
by Anne Perry
read in September, 2012
I'm a big fan of Perry's Victorian mysteries, and much as I like Thomas and Charlotte, I like the Hester and Monk novels even better--and this one pleased me even more than some of her other recent books. Hester and Monk never seem to stale as charac...more
The Goblin Wood by Hilari Bell
" THE GOBLIN WOOD Was A Very Thrilling And Intruiging Book!

This Book Had Great Imagery! HILARI BELL Knows How To Weave Words In A Way That Makes It So Easy To Imagine!
The Characters Were Well-Developed And Had Believable Backstories That Entice Th... "
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Hilari Bell rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Great Escape by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The Great Escape (Wynette, Texas, #7)
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Goodreads Author)
read in July, 2012
Delightful! I don't read a lot of romances, particularly books that aren't at least romantic suspense--but SEP is one of the major exceptions to that rule, because she not only has a great sense of humor, but because her characters are so very engagi...more
More of Hilari's books…
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”
Hilari Bell, Navohar

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”
Hilari Bell, Crown of Earth

“Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi”
Hilari Bell

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