Editorial Reviews:
Synopsis
p Winner, 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for fiction in the Mainstream category./p p "Breathtakingly gorgeous writing … a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience…"br --from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com/p p "…reminds me of Le Guin, of Cecelia Holland, and something of Rosemary Sutcliff… It made me feel as I did when I was a child reading authors like those… Once again I was in a magical place…"br --from a review by Charles Ferguson on Amazon.com/p p "…there’s no ring of power or glowing sword of specialness; the magic, like the tone of the book, is quiet. It feels real."br --from a blog review on livejournal/p p When she was a child, the author of When Women Were Warriors happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began, "Once upon a time, a young man went out to seek his fortune." But she would have been delighted to discover even one story like that with a female protagonist. Since she never did find the story she was looking for all those years ago, she decided to write it./p p In Book I of the trilogy, Tamras arrives in Merin’s house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin’s house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras./p p "…Both men and women of all persuasions seem to love these books... Very rare. Bravo, Bravo, Bravo!"br --from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com /p p "Think Beowulf--only comprehensible and with girls."br --from a review on the blog, The Rainbow Reader, by Baxter Clare Trautman, author of The River Within/p
