The Sword of Sagamore

Sagamore #2

by Kara Dalkey

An innocent half-human, half-demon child unknowingly bears the Cursemark, which ties the destiny of the kingdom to her emotions, and the slightest mood swing could destroy the world

Genres: Fantasy, Adventure

235 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1989

About the author

Kara Mia Dalkey is an American author of young adult fiction and historical fantasy. She was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Seattle. Much of her fiction is set in the Heian period of Japan.

She was married to author John Barnes; they divorced in 2001. She is a member of the Pre-Joycean Fellowship and of the Scribblies. She is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing in Los Angeles.

She is also a musician and has gigged extensively on electric bass (which she plays left-handed) and harmony vocals, with such bands as Runestone, the Albany Free Traders, and Nate Bucklin and the Ensemble (in Minnesota) and Relic and Voodoo Blue (in Seattle.) At different times she has also played drums, banjo and acoustic guitar. She is a songwriter, but her total output is low, and consequently no CD or other album is presently in the works.

Reviews

[Stuart Schneider · Rating 1 out of 5]

The sequel to the Sword of Sagamore, which was a much better book than this one, although to be honest I read the Sword thirty years earlier. Piers Anthony level reading now (referring to any Xanth novel after #5)