![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She really brought pre-Saxon England to life, a world lived in the shadow of the former Roman Empire, without the resources and technology to keep it up. Lucy Holland (who has also written secondary world, epic fantasy under Lucy Hounsom) manages to capture this world of uncertainty and conflict perfectly. In the British Isles, it was a time of fragment kingdoms and conquest, of tensions between the older religions and the expansion of Christianity. SISTERSONG is a book set in the Dark Ages, when we have don’t have much surviving written text (comparative to other eras) to construct a picture of what happened after the fall of the Roman Empire. It’s a story that will shape the destiny of Britain. Riva, Keyne and Sinne must take fate into their own hands, or risk being tangled in a story they could never have imagined one of treachery, love and ultimately, murder. But change comes on the day ash falls from the sky, bringing Myrddhin, meddler and magician, and Tristan, a warrior whose secrets will tear the siblings apart. And Sinne, the spoiled youngest girl, yearns for romance.Īll three fear a life of confinement within the walls of the hold – a last bastion of strength against the invading Saxons. Keyne battles to be seen as the king’s son, when born a daughter. Riva, scarred in a terrible fire, fears she will never heal. In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, King Cador’s children inherit a fragmented land abandoned by the Romans. ![]()
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