Tale's End
Just finished "The Sky-Blue Wolves" by S.M. Stirling, published by ACE.
I've always looked upon books as woven into the memory and fabric of an individual's life. I remember buying "Island In The Sea of Time" - the first book in what would ultimately evolve into the Ember/Change series - when it was first released in a paperback back in the mid-90s when I was with Mom at Barnes & Noble here in Mandarin - an upper middle class suburb here in Jacksonville, Florida. I greatly enjoyed reading the originally trilogy and I was happy to discover S.M. Stirling continued the tale of the Ember/Change Universe in "Dies The Fire" - which I also bought at Barnes & Noble. Nowadays, I buy a majority of my books, audio drama cds and dvds from Amazon because it's more economical and my money goes further.
Deftly picking up where the last book, "The Sea Peoples" left off, we find Prince John and his very pregnant bride Pip are back in Montival and Crown Princess Orlaith and her friends, including the Japanese Empress Reiko are struggling to contain and defeat the great inter-dimensional behind the Yellow Raja. Yet in deft political maneuver , Orlaith is recalled to become crowned High Queen Regent of Montival because only a Wiccan Queen can marshal all the country's forces to lead an army overseas in order to defeat an evil that must be meet and killed on a different plane of existence. And at her Queenmaking, Orlaith must weave broken threads of the past together if she is to exist while giving comfort to her future unborn daughter.
A very satisfying and epic conclusion to one of alternative history's longest running sagas.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
FIVE STARS!
I've always looked upon books as woven into the memory and fabric of an individual's life. I remember buying "Island In The Sea of Time" - the first book in what would ultimately evolve into the Ember/Change series - when it was first released in a paperback back in the mid-90s when I was with Mom at Barnes & Noble here in Mandarin - an upper middle class suburb here in Jacksonville, Florida. I greatly enjoyed reading the originally trilogy and I was happy to discover S.M. Stirling continued the tale of the Ember/Change Universe in "Dies The Fire" - which I also bought at Barnes & Noble. Nowadays, I buy a majority of my books, audio drama cds and dvds from Amazon because it's more economical and my money goes further.
Deftly picking up where the last book, "The Sea Peoples" left off, we find Prince John and his very pregnant bride Pip are back in Montival and Crown Princess Orlaith and her friends, including the Japanese Empress Reiko are struggling to contain and defeat the great inter-dimensional behind the Yellow Raja. Yet in deft political maneuver , Orlaith is recalled to become crowned High Queen Regent of Montival because only a Wiccan Queen can marshal all the country's forces to lead an army overseas in order to defeat an evil that must be meet and killed on a different plane of existence. And at her Queenmaking, Orlaith must weave broken threads of the past together if she is to exist while giving comfort to her future unborn daughter.
A very satisfying and epic conclusion to one of alternative history's longest running sagas.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
FIVE STARS!
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