Sadar's Keep: Book Two of the Oran Trilogy

by Midori Snyder

Fire, Earth, Water, and Air, the magical elements of the Queens’ Quarter, have always been shared between four different women. But the Fire Queen stole power from her sisters and suppressed the magic of the land. But Oran’s magic cannot be hidden for long. In the fields and mountains, far from the Fire Queen’s control, new powers are stirring. A man transforms himself into a powerful winged bird, and a Ghazali girl listens with sorrow to the faraway mountains where men and women gather in the forests, preparing to fight for their lives and their land. Fire, Earth, All that is missing now is the girl who commands Water.

410 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 17, 2024

About the author

Midori Snyder is the author of eight books for children and adults, published in English, French, and Dutch. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition. Other novels include The Flight of Michael McBride (a mythic western), Soulstring (a lyrical fairy tale), The Oran Trilogy: New Moon, Sadar's Keep, and Beldan's Fire (imaginary-world fantasy, recently re-published in Vikings's Firebird line), and Hannah's Garden (a contemporary faery novel for young adults). Except the Queen, a novel written in collaboration with Jane Yolen is forthcoming in 2010.

Her short stories have appeared in numerous venues including the The Armless Maiden; Black Thorn, White Rose; Xanadu III; Swan Sister; Borderland; and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Recent stories have appeared in Young Adult anthologies, The Greenman, Tales From the Mythic Forest and Troll's Eye View, A Book of Villianous Tales. Her nonfiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy and other magazines, and in essay collections including Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.

In addition to writing, she co-directs The Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts with Terri Winding. She co-edited and designed the online Journal of Mythic Arts from 2003 - 2008; and she served as chairwoman on the judges' panel for the 2007 James Tiptree, Jr. Awards.

Midori currently lives in Arizona with her husband, Stephen Haessler.

Reviews

[Kristy Halseth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slowly remembering the book as I read.

I am enjoying the process of remembering as I read. I think some things bother me more in my 50s than they did as a teen or my early 20s. Content wise, that is. But the horrible editing while making an ebook completely annoys me in a different way. Like they just don't care.