The Eagle & the Nightingales - Softcover

Lackey, Mercedes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671877062 ISBN 13: 9780671877064

Publisher: Baen, 1996

Synopsis

Disturbed by the growing presence of the Church throughout Alanda, Nightingale fears for her non-human friends and joins forces with birdman T'fyrr in a quest to save the High King. Reprint.

About this title

From Booklist:

The prolific and popular Lackey proffers the third volume of her Bardic Voices fantasy saga. One of the nightingales of the title is a gypsy bard who comes to Kingsford Faire and, before she leaves, is up to her eyebrows in intrigues both mundane and magical that involve a large cast of characters, not all of them human or even corporeal. The book displays Lackey's usual sound characterization, brisk pacing, and intelligently detailed world building, which will hold readers of both fantasy in general and Bardic Voices in particular. Lackey is sufficiently gifted that one continues to hope for work that is more original than what she has been producing lately. Still, she remains an undoubted mistress of the well-told tale, and if she does not dazzle, neither does she disappoint. Roland Green

Review:

Nightingale and her friends are increasingly concerned about the Church's attitude toward non-human sentients that it doesn't control: her worries cause her to join forces with a birdman which turns into an unusual relationship as the two probe the ultimate influences behind the Church's decisions. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Baen
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0671877062
• ISBN 13: 9780671877064
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416