Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
When gods, demi-gods, and witches play with humans' lives, inevitably the result is pain and sorrow for the lesser creatures
involved. As one of the unfortunate pawns in a game that spills over millennia, pity Cornelia, a young and
headstrong princess who has the supreme misfortune of being caught between Brutus, the kingman who would rebuild Troy, and
Genvissa, ruthless descendant of Ariadne, who will possess the power Brutus holds.
Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass
reviewed by Steven H Silver
From the very first pages of of this book, it is clear
that the author has a tightly packed and plotted series in mind. Epic in proportion, she is tackling nothing less than the course of
Western civilization, from the fall of Troy until the Second World War, all set against a rotating cast of eternal heroes and
villains and the Byzantine game they play -- The Troy Game.
Starman by Sara Douglass
reviewed by Alma A. Hromic
It is the secret that Robert Jordan and, now, Sara Douglass have learned. Hook a fan once, and they will return for any
amount of rehash. Draw a pretty map, make up some weird names, chase them all out of a picturesque castle on wild goose
chase quests, throw in a Dark Lord or a Wicked Witch of the North, and you've got it made -- book after book after book
after trilogy after trilogy.
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Starman by Sara Douglass
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
It's no secret that fantasy fans like their sword and sorcery in heroic slabs. Well, no one gives readers their fantasy in
more massive doses than this author, and no one hits that magical high more precisely. Here, the epic
Wayfarer Redemption series continues with an expanse and a vision that dwarfs other -ologies that have gone
before it. Is it any wonder that the series is the most successful in Australian history?
The Nameless Day by Sara Douglass
reviewed by William Thompson
At its most basic, this is an alternate history, set within the conflicts of the Hundred Years' War amidst
the divisions within the Church between the political papacies of Rome and Avignon. Broad, at times
detailed scholarship of the period is evident, and few of the historical figures for the mid-14th century
have not assumed a role as characters, up to and including Chaucer. Using the epic scope of the
conflict, one that gripped most of Europe within a morass of political and military upheaval and intrigue
the equal of any to be found in fiction, the author has interposed into that struggle a largely unseen
battle waged between angels and demons for control over mankind's future, of which the earthly conflicts
are but a mortal reflection.
The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
reviewed by Victoria Strauss
More than a millennium ago, in the land of Tencendor, three races
lived in harmony: human beings, the winged mountain-dwelling
Icarii, and the Avar, a people wise in the ways of the forests and
the earth. But then a new faith rose up among the humans, the Way
of the Plough, which taught that mountains and woodlands and other
wild places were evil, and must be either avoided or subdued. Led
by the Seneschal, their religious leadership, humans ruthlessly drove the Icarii and the Avar into exile.
Over the centuries these races passed into legend, known collectively as the Forbidden.
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