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Warprize (Chronicles of the Warlands, Book #1)
by Elizabeth Vaughan

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638397.Warprize?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Warprize (Chronicles of the Warlands, Book #1)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176590243m/638397.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638397.Warprize?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Warprize</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/38598.Elizabeth_Vaughan">Elizabeth Vaughan</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10337324?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 3 of 5 stars My first book read for 2008! All right, so it took me nine days to do it, but we already know that I don't read as fast as some of you. :)
 
 Xylara is a daughter of Xy, one of the royal bloodline that's ruled her kingdom for generations. She is not destined to become queen; her half-brother Xymund was her father's heir and now holds the throne. Which suits her fine. She doesn't want to rule. She wants to be a master healer and open a school of teaching. Her kingdom is at war, however, with barbarians called Firelanders, and when one of them claims her as his Warprize, fate proves that it has other plans for her.
 
 I had heard and read a lot about Warprize when it was released. It got a lot of good buzz and I bought it based on that and my eagerness to check out Tor's romance line. Obviously I didn't get to the book until the end of last year, but slow and steady wins the race, right?
 
 I enjoyed this book. Ms. Vaughn created interesting characters and got me to invest in all of the secondaries. Keir, the blue-eyed Warlord, is appealing, of course, though I think I ended up knowing least about him than about any of the other characters and I would have liked a little more interaction between him and Xylara. I'm not at all sure what about her makes him want her so badly or how they really relate. Xylara spends more time with minor characters than her own mate. I'm going to assume that was intentional and that more details come out about him in the following books. I liked him enough to want to know what those details might be, though, so that has to count for something.
 
 What I didn't like about the book were the multiple (and I do mean multiple) editing errors. Comma usage, words ending in -ed that should have ended in -s and vice versa, and other basic editing/copyediting errors abound in the book and left me shaking my head a lot. I can and did read past them, but it doesn't make for a very good showing when really simple things make it to print.
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My first book read for 2008! All right, so it took me nine days to do it, but we already know that I don't read as fast as some of you. :)

Xylara is a daughter of Xy, one of the royal bloodline that's ruled her kingdom for generations. She is not destined to become queen; her half-brother Xymund was her father's heir and now holds the throne. Which suits her fine. She doesn't want to rule. She wants to be a master healer and open a school of teaching. Her kingdom is at war, however, with barbarians called Firelanders, and when one of them claims her as his Warprize, fate proves that it has other plans for her.

I had heard and read a lot about Warprize when it was released. It got a lot of good buzz and I bought it based on that and my eagerness to check out Tor's romance line. Obviously I didn't get to the book until the end of last year, but slow and steady wins the race, right?

I enjoyed this book. Ms. Vaughn created interesting characters and got me to invest in all of the ...more

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