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Irissa and Kendric #3
Keepers of Edanvant
Silver Eyed Irissa, the Torloc Seeress, has been searching for her people and their homeworld , Edanvant, through years, through Gates between worlds. Accompanied by Kendric the Wrathman, the human skeptic who, by bed bond, has gained the magical powers he utterly distrusts, Irissa finds an Edanvant far bleaker than she hoped - a family that is not a family, a people divided against itself, a planet walled and threatened.
383 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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Carole Nelson Douglas
169 books567 followersCarole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty-four award-winning novels in contemporary and historical mystery/suspense and romance, high and urban fantasy and science fiction genres. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian historical suspense series (she was the first woman to spin-off a series from the Holmes stories) and the multi-award-winning alphabetically titled Midnight Louie contemporary mystery series. From Cat in an Alphabet Soup #1 to Cat in an Alphabet Endgame #28.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
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September 13, 2024
I have a habit of picking up fantasy series on their final novel, or somewhere in the middle. So I felt so pleased with myself when I found Keepers of Edenvant on some "free to a good home" pile somewhere. "Book One of the Sword and Circlet trilogy" the cover promised me.
Instead... I don't even know what this is, except that it's very clearly a continuation of an ongoing series. Some male wizards have returned to their ancestral home, where they pick a fight with all the women - represented by a blind granny - for some reason. Meanwhile, a lady wizard and a jaded warrior type walk between worlds, somehow, before pitching up near the lady wizards' hideout. There's something called a Rynx, which is basically an unhelpful animal sidekick. Mercifully the Rynx vanishes before it can become too irritating, but a second unhelpful animal sidekick is just around the corner. Most of the characters the lady wizard and the warrior meet seem to know just about everything that is going on, but purely to string out the plot, they won't answer anybody else's perfectly reasonable questions.
So, setting aside all the references to past adventures in a different series, what we have here is basically a secondary world sword and sorcery fantasy story. And to ram home the fact that we're not on Earth, the author has given things stupid names. Horses become "bearing beasts", monkeys become "treemonks", and so on and so forth. Halfway through, it suddenly turns out the lady wizard and the warrior have been shagging since at least the previous book, but they insist on calling it "bed bonding", which I just bet isn't as kinky as it sounds. So it's at least in part a romance, I suppose, but there's zero chemistry between the two characters, and they just piss and moan at each other about magic for most of the time they're together.
Beyond stupid names for shagging and horses, the prose tends somewhat towards the purple, and while a story does eventually kind of get going, frankly the whole thing was pretentious twaddle that I only stuck with through sheer bloody-mindedness and also having nothing else to read on the bus this week. I came within a whisker of not finishing this, and the only reason I'm giving it more than one star is that the author appears to have passed away relatively recently, and she appears to be better known for mystery novels in any case.
Instead... I don't even know what this is, except that it's very clearly a continuation of an ongoing series. Some male wizards have returned to their ancestral home, where they pick a fight with all the women - represented by a blind granny - for some reason. Meanwhile, a lady wizard and a jaded warrior type walk between worlds, somehow, before pitching up near the lady wizards' hideout. There's something called a Rynx, which is basically an unhelpful animal sidekick. Mercifully the Rynx vanishes before it can become too irritating, but a second unhelpful animal sidekick is just around the corner. Most of the characters the lady wizard and the warrior meet seem to know just about everything that is going on, but purely to string out the plot, they won't answer anybody else's perfectly reasonable questions.
So, setting aside all the references to past adventures in a different series, what we have here is basically a secondary world sword and sorcery fantasy story. And to ram home the fact that we're not on Earth, the author has given things stupid names. Horses become "bearing beasts", monkeys become "treemonks", and so on and so forth. Halfway through, it suddenly turns out the lady wizard and the warrior have been shagging since at least the previous book, but they insist on calling it "bed bonding", which I just bet isn't as kinky as it sounds. So it's at least in part a romance, I suppose, but there's zero chemistry between the two characters, and they just piss and moan at each other about magic for most of the time they're together.
Beyond stupid names for shagging and horses, the prose tends somewhat towards the purple, and while a story does eventually kind of get going, frankly the whole thing was pretentious twaddle that I only stuck with through sheer bloody-mindedness and also having nothing else to read on the bus this week. I came within a whisker of not finishing this, and the only reason I'm giving it more than one star is that the author appears to have passed away relatively recently, and she appears to be better known for mystery novels in any case.
August 5, 2019
not bad... not that good either
February 25, 2010
I read this series several years after the first two books and remember VERY little about it. I know it highlights the lives of the children of the original characters and I know that I finished the series because I felt obligated. I also remember that I did not care for the daughter. If I read the first two again I will leave this series out.
January 9, 2011
Had a little bit of the feel of Witchworld but with Lots of adjectives....
March 1, 2011
A great fantasy story with magic, other worlds, mystical creatures, and magical weapons.
March 31, 2011
Pt 3, whatever the cover says, a good reunion
didnotfinish
July 23, 2012Had to put this one down. There was nothing that interested me and the characters weren't likeable at all.
August 4, 2012
I got this and the following 2 books all in 1 swoop as I needed something diffrent from the sci-fi books I had been reading. Well this was a poor choice.
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