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The Phoenix Feather Quartet
Mar. 31st, 2022 03:40 pmOnce there was a bodyguard who was like a brother to the impetuous imperial prince he was sworn to protect. The prince fell for a breathtakingly beautiful but entirely unworldly-wise young aristocrat from a scholarly family, but when she rejected him, he turned vindictive and ordered the bodyguard to kill her. But the bodyguard had himself fallen in love with the young woman, and she with him, so they fled to the far ends of the empire. The prince--who became emperor--holds an undying grudge.
This is The Story, which the three children of Danno and Hanu (the bodyguard and young woman) learn when they get old enough to know the importance of guarding this secret with their lives. Another part of this story? That when Danno and Hanu wed, a phoenix feather drifted down to them--surely meaning that one of their future children would be destined for greatness.
Thus begins Sherwood Smith's Phoenix Feather quartet, which follows the adventures of those three children, as well as (later) the children of the vengeful emperor--not to mention a myriad other characters--merciless assassins, honorable gallant warriors and vicious outlaws, brave servants, scheming courtiers, gods that walk among humankind in disguise, elderly teachers, shop owners and other businesspeole (including publishers!), spies, brimstone miners, krakens, dragons... I am sure I'm leaving some out.
All four volumes are available now in paperback, ebook, and hardback. If you want to lose yourself in a superb saga, intricately plotted and inhabited by three-dimensional characters whom you will love (or hate) intensely, a saga that accurately captures the flavor of popular Chinese historical novels and has threads of the numinous woven through it, then THIS IS THE SERIES FOR YOU.
I love it unreservedly and hope many people discover it.
This is The Story, which the three children of Danno and Hanu (the bodyguard and young woman) learn when they get old enough to know the importance of guarding this secret with their lives. Another part of this story? That when Danno and Hanu wed, a phoenix feather drifted down to them--surely meaning that one of their future children would be destined for greatness.
Thus begins Sherwood Smith's Phoenix Feather quartet, which follows the adventures of those three children, as well as (later) the children of the vengeful emperor--not to mention a myriad other characters--merciless assassins, honorable gallant warriors and vicious outlaws, brave servants, scheming courtiers, gods that walk among humankind in disguise, elderly teachers, shop owners and other businesspeole (including publishers!), spies, brimstone miners, krakens, dragons... I am sure I'm leaving some out.
All four volumes are available now in paperback, ebook, and hardback. If you want to lose yourself in a superb saga, intricately plotted and inhabited by three-dimensional characters whom you will love (or hate) intensely, a saga that accurately captures the flavor of popular Chinese historical novels and has threads of the numinous woven through it, then THIS IS THE SERIES FOR YOU.
I love it unreservedly and hope many people discover it.
