The Work of the Sun

The Green Lion trilogy #3

by Teresa Edgerton

Once a lonely apprentice, Teleri is now the Queen's own sorceress - and betrothed to the realm's finest knight, Ceilyn mac Cuel. But beneath the seeming peace and happiness of the Kingdom of Celydonn, malevolent hearts scheme against Teleri and her allies.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction

258 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

I believe I began telling stories as soon as I learned to talk. More than sixty years later I am still inventing them.

On paper, my life looks more glamorous than it was in actual fact (most peoples' lives do). My husband and I met at our local Renaissance Faire. I've made and sold puppets, spent twenty years as a professional fortuneteller, worked in a craft store, and been an active member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. My hobbies are Halloween and Christmas.

Currently, I am working as an editor for Tickety Boo Press, heading a new imprint Venus Ascending, which will be publishing fantasy and science fiction romance novels. For submission guidelines http://www.ticketyboopress.co.uk/tere...

My own published work includes eleven fantasy novels, written under my own name and my pseudonym, Madeline Howard, as well as short fiction, reviews, interviews, and articles on writing.

I live with my husband, two adult children, a son-in-law, two grandsons, assorted pets, and more books than you might think would fit in the remaining space.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

So there's a scene with two characters who both have "passionate" faces and I just don't know what I'm meant to be picturing. Overacting? Mugging?

Tryffin freaks out about killing a man and I have to wonder if he just didn't notice the dozen dwarves they killed right before that. Did they not count? Wait, I can answer that question: only one of the dwarves had a name and it turned out he wasn't actually a dwarf, so at least to the author, no they didn't count.

This romance is so much more cringe now that I'm not a teenager.

[Robert (NurseBob) · Rating 3 out of 5]

For me this was the weakest of the three books. Edgerton gives an unsatisfying ending which bypasses the expected showdown and instead gives us a bit of Harlequin Romance and a fairytale resolution. However, I did appreciate the way she prefaced each chapter with passages from (fictitious) history and mythology which augment the main story.

[T.I.M. James]

Teresa Edgerton is, I believe, an established writer in the US, here in the UK her works are not so easy to come by. I managed to get hold of this, her first trilogy, and felt that as a whole it was good.



Here the third book wraps the proceedings up, and I found it to be the most enjoyable of the three. This was the author's début series (I think), and one of the most enjoyable things was seeing her writing blossom as the books went on.



Set in a medieval style fantasy world, based more around Welsh myth and legend means the words are sometimes hard going, but all in all an excellent read - even more-so when you consider that I was totally surprise about 2/3 of the way through about the way the book was going to turn out!

[Meredith Galman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful but just a little disappointing conclusion to the trilogy. Ceilyn and Teleri manage to harness their powers and come to terms with themselves and each other. However, there are a few too many loose ends, neither explained nor excused by Edgerton's subsequent trilogy focused on Tryffin and Gwenlliant. Also, the final defeat of Diaspad is a literal anticlimax, as it both is weirdly undramatic and occurs when there's still a third of the book left.

[April · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trudged through the beginning of the first book (hint, don't listen to authors when they give you a pronunciation guide)... and soared through the second and third. This trilogy is delightful, beautiful, enchanting. I thoroughly enjoyed this quasi authurian type fantasy... time to look into this author and see if she has done anything else! Four out of five because I still can't get over how hard the names were!

[Mely]

2016 reread.

[Jessica Austin Gudmundson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read these when they first came out and are just as good as I remember