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Raven’s Strike ~ Patricia Briggs

this is the second book in the Raven Duology. In this book Teir and Seraph and their family, along with the Emperor and his guards, who have come to ask Teir’s advice, journey to the city that started it all, all the orders, and legends. To try to battle the shadowed, and clear the Emperor of the Memory that is haunting him. Will they survive the trip, and the battle that follows?

August 9, 2007 Posted by theboardbitch | Patricia Briggs | | No Comments Yet

Raven’s Shadow ~ Patricia Briggs

This is the first book in the Raven Douology. Teir is a soldier, headed home from war, when he comes across what appears to be a lynching, and ends up rescuing the sister of the lynchee, Seraph, only to find that she is the one that the people had been afraid of, they just didn’t know it. As she was a Traveler (gypsy equivalent) and also a mage. Soon Teir and Seraph are married and twenty years later, they and their children come across some more trouble, threatening not only them, but all Travelers, and others. Can they survive the solving of this trouble?

July 30, 2007 Posted by theboardbitch | Patricia Briggs | | No Comments Yet

Dragon’s Blood ~ Patricia Briggs

This is the conclusion to the Hurog Duology. This novel takes place four years after the previous book. The king has recalled that Ward was supposedly not smart enough to manage Hurog on his own, and has sent soldiers to bring him back to Court, to be tested and determine his capabilities for himself. We soon discover that this is a plot to lock Ward away and drive his family into committing treason so that he can have them all murdered. Will Ward manage to overthrow this plot of the kings and save those he cares for the most?

July 27, 2007 Posted by theboardbitch | Patricia Briggs | | No Comments Yet

Dragon Bones ~ Patricia Briggs

this is the first book in the Hurog duo. Ward is the young heir to Hurog, an estate known for caring for the dragons on the area, except the last dragon died hundreds of years ago. When is father suddenly dies, Ward is left as the new Hurogmeten, or lord of Hurog, though his Uncle is to oversee things till he reaches twenty-one.
Through a series of problems, Ward ends up on the run, trying to prove his intelligence, and competence in running things for himself. Trying to keep himself out of the mental house, and win Hurog back. The question is if he will survive his quest.

July 26, 2007 Posted by theboardbitch | Patricia Briggs | | No Comments Yet