a satisfying, gripping read

Rand by Silvia Shaw

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Rand is an epic tale of two parallel worlds, our earth and Rand, with magic, Monsters, female warriors, winged horses, witches and demons. There are not one, but two lesbian romances here, that of the main heroine, Savannah, who’s been promised her dream woman by a vision, that saved her from certain death in a sandstorm in the Sahara, and that of the warrior woman, who comes to find her and take her “home” to Rand, Tamasin and her wife.

Savannah is thrown into a world she hardly understands as the saviour of said world and has to learn about herself and what she really is almost without help. Tamasin becomes her friend, but due to their different ancestry and the differences of the worlds they grew up in respectively, it is very difficult to truly understand each other. The fact that Tamasin’s wife is the queen of the whole of Rand and jealous of Savannah without any real reason doesn’t help either.

Even though Rand is clearly labelled as volume one, this could also be read as a stand alone and would remain a satisfying, gripping read nevertheless.



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