Much like “Camber the Heretic,” which chronologically comes before this one, this is not an attention-keeping tome but even worse. I suppose readers who are not fascinated by the ritualistic episodes, which can go on for ten or twelve pages, will have to endure those elements in the narrative or ...
Out of all the Deryni books this is the one that is the hardest for me to reread. I am not disappointed when I do, as the story is perhaps the best of all her books, but it is also the most painful for me to read. It is tragic, and the events in this section of the history of Gwynedd has the mo...