Daggerspell | 
CAWPILE Rating:
Character: 6 - some characters well drawn
Atmosphere/Setting: 7 epic fantasy tropes
Writing Style: 8 - I enjoy her style
Plot: 7 - confusing, with multiple timelines and people reincarnated
Intrigue: 7 - plots and plots
Logic/Relationships: 5 - I found some of it rather unbelievable or at least odd
Enjoyment: 7 - I did enjoy the story.
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#manicmonday #letterD
📚 Daggerspell (tagged)
🖋 Kate DiCamillo
📺 Dollhouse
🎤 DOLLY!!!
🎶 Dumb Blonde (by Dolly Parton)
#WyrdAndWonder day 7: say what? Today we‘re talking books featuring fictional languages so I‘m singing the praises of the epic Deverry saga with its languages derived from Celtic and Ancient Greek (and because they‘re all time favourites of mine ❤️)
I really enjoyed this debut novel from one of fantasy‘s best loved and prolific authors. A great story and plenty of backstory and vivid worldbuilding.
#fantasy #swordandsorcery #epicfantasy
so-soReally mixed feelings about this book. There were parts I loved and parts that made me wonder why i was reading the book
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
Square 6 ✔️
Bingo- center column
Note to self: ALWAYS CHECK HOW MANY BOOKS ARE IN A SERIES BEFORE STARTING
Oops....
It's pretty hot today, just about 90°. Whew! 😥 But I didn't let the heat stop me from going to the park for a walk with my book! 💕📚
#top20series #20series20days Day 5
Deverry Cycle by Katharine Kerr
A Celtic fantasy series. As of Feb 2020, 16 books have been published. I only have 4, which make up Act I: Deverry. These books I love to savor, so I read them only when I have plenty of time to devote to them.
But I am annoyed the UK versions of books 3 & 4 were titled Dawnspell & Dragonspell, which I think works much better than the U.S titles.
🎉🎈🎁🎂 Birthday Book Haul Post #3 😀💕📚
I received some gift cards and book money from friends and coworkers for my birthday last week...and these are the books I purchased with those! 😀 The right pile is all Deverry books, as it's a fantasy series I've always been interested in! 💕📚 #bookhaul
pickI still love this book. It reads very differently now and I respond to different elements (Cullyn redeeming mistakes in former lives; Jill recognising Nevyn; Lovyan's politics) - but I think I'll always love this book.
New year means new buddy reads! Taking this for another spin before @imyril and I continue our #Deverry adventures! #Daggerspell #fantasy #katharinekerr #buddyreads
pickThe best series-openers leave the reader excited about what‘s to come, and this pseudo-Celtic reincarnation story delivers. I like the characters in their current incarnations, I‘m eager to see what new facets of their personalities emerge as Kerr continues to explore their past lives, and I want to see how everything plays out in the present.
There ARE some dull patches, but this is mostly good stuff. TW for incest.
Okay, friends; I‘m determined to finally finish DAGGERSPELL today. (Have I mentioned how much I hate reading slowly? My current pace is killing me.) I‘ve just read the big battle, which tbh was another borderline dull patch for me, and I‘m hoping the book ends strong.
Rain‘s back. We‘re being lazy.
I wanted to do #24b4monday this weekend, but I‘ve had a lot less reading time than I expected and I‘m only at 9:30 after the chunk I just did. Oh well. It was a spur of the moment thing anyways. #caseyplusbooks
I‘ve done all the stuff I‘ve gotta do. Now I get to read my book and drink my new-to-me beer out of my new-to-me Jets glass.
I‘m about halfway through DAGGERSPELL and I‘m loving it. Fingers crossed it keeps up; I bought the next three today and I do NOT want a repeat of the Great Raymond E. Feist Debacle. (I had SO MANY Riftwar books stocked up, and I got SO BORED before I‘d even finished book one.)
Last night I got so bored with DAGGERSPELL I put it down and figured I probably wouldn‘t pick it back up. This afternoon I decided to give it twenty more pages, and hey! I found my way back into it!
I‘m now on page 150, and I‘m sorry the Book Market didn‘t have the next couple volumes. I think I‘m gonna want to read on when this one‘s done.
Deverry fans, I need your help. I read the first chunk of DAGGERSPELL earlier. I liked it, but I‘m not hooked yet.
Now I‘m into the second part, where all the characters are in their first incarnation, and I‘m SO. BORED.
Does the book turn around, or is the 643 segment a good litmus test for what‘s ahead of me?
I can‘t seem to get warm today. Boooo. Tea helps a bit.
Gonna see if I can sink into DAGGERSPELL tonight. It‘s been on La TBR since October 2007, which I only know because I bought it during a period where I pencilled the purchase date inside each new book‘s front cover. Someone on LibraryThing recced the Deverry series to me when I was in Robin Hobb withdrawal and wanted something bingeable, stat—which is why I sat on it for 12 years.
pickI finished this a couple weeks ago. Bought it today... not the usual order for me lol. Actually I had wanted to read this for a long time - an acclaimed fantasy that I hadn't read before - and I thought I owned it. Turns out I had Darkspell (book 2), oops. So I read this one from the library, and really liked it. Always a good sign when I want my own copy of one I read from the library.
#ManicMonday indeed!
1. Tagged - love this series!
2. Kate DiCamillo
3. Dirk Gently‘s Holistic Detective Agency (also a great book!)
4. Dewberries
Love exploring new & used bookstores! Bought a few fantasy and sci fi classics today #indiebookstores #bookshop
pickExcellent Celtic high-fantasy with a fun and intricate reincarnation plot in which the characters have to work out their debts and wrongdoings to one another. I found myself deeply caring for a lot of the characters who often had complex flaws and ambiguous morality. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I like high fantasy but sometimes it's dense and I need lots of breaks...
