Glitterspike Hall

The Heirs to Gnarlsmyre #1

by Mike Jefferies

MINOR WEAR ON TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES OF SPINE. NO WRITING OR MARKS ON PAGES.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Mike Jefferies is a British screenwriter, film producer, and author. Jefferies founded the media and publishing group Mondiale in 1991 which he sold to the Daily Mail in 1999 after winning the HRH Queens Award for Enterprise in 1998.
He was born in Liverpool and now resides in Los Angeles. When he is not working in Hollywood, he is writing fantasy novels.

Reviews

[Matt]

Impressively sexist in many ways for a book aspiring to be feminist in some way. Basically just 90s fantasy pulp I'll have forgotten in a week.

[Cindy Schmidt Reid · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nope!

[Michael Vawser]

2 copies

[Heather Graves · Rating 5 out of 5]

An enjoyable read. Cant agree with the comments everyone else has written. Mike writes the cultures incredibly and the startling differences between. Very good writing

[T J · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I bought this book I did not realize it had connections to Loremasters of Elundium, an intriguing one at that. This story begins in the kingdom of Gnarlsmyre, a place of swamps, strange beast and magic. Marrimian is the daughter to the king and is treated as a curse to him. He wanted a male heir to pass his kingship to but all he has is daughters. With a prophecy he has caused his kingdom to be bargain off to he who can touch the Glitterspike. There are many twist and turns to this tale that made it a delightful read.

[Ice Bear · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable reading

[Alyssa Acula · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love, love, LOVE the worldbuilding-- the culture of the peoples are very concrete that you can easily picture their society, even the mundane details, in your mind. The only character I like, though, is Krann. Marrimian grates on my nerves too much. I preferred Yaloor, and that one other mudbeast brought by that Mertzork guy or somerthing.