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Bitter Moon Saga #1-3
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The Bitter Moon Saga is the epic tale of Torrant Shadow-Triane's Son-and his goddess gift; his lovers, family, and friends; and their struggle against the forces of evil. In Book 1, Torrant and Yarri no longer live in their tolerant home, and Torrant must use his goddess gift for protection if they are to survive. In Book 2, The evil from Torrant's homeland becomes too much to be ignored while he's in school, and he must will he be a healer or a hero? In Book 3, Torrant and Aylan ride to Dueance to infiltrate the Regent's council and change policy toward the Goddess's chosen from the inside. And in Book 4, Torrant must use his healer/poet and predator sides to save his people. If he fails, Rath will eliminate joy from the heart of the lands of the three moons, and all that Torrant and his family cherish will be lost. But success could exact a devastating cost, one Triane's Son was never prepared to pay.
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1001 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 12, 2016
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Amy Lane
204 books3,490 followersAmy Lane dodges an EDJ, mothers four children, and writes the occasional book. She, her brood, and her beloved mate, Mack, live in a crumbling mortgage in Citrus Heights, California, which is riddled with spiders, cats, and more than its share of fancy and weirdness. Feel free to visit her at www.greenshill.com orwww.writerslane.blogspot.com, where she will ride the buzz of receiving your e-mail until her head swells and she can no longer leave the house.
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June 28, 2018
I took a while getting to this series; I've been reading a lot of Amy Lane, and I really love her romances, but I wasn't sure how well her voice would serve epic fantasy (and I really dislike the pictures on the covers, which just goes to demonstrate the old adage...). But I'm running out of Amy Lane books to read, and I do like epic fiction generally, and the bundle is a significant improvement in price on buying each separately, so...
Yes, she can write epic fantasy. The focus is more on the individuals' feelings than perhaps is common in the genre, but the story is epic and compelling and deftly plotted and told. The cost of being an epic hero is also conveyed, very movingly. Characters who are, on first meeting morally ambiguous or unappealing sometimes turn out to have unexpected depths. Love has many faces, even within the same relationship. The world is quite contained (a handful of small countries and city/states), but the battle for the soul of a people is as significant as the battle against the end of the world, and has far more real-world echoes, sadly. (Time after time I thought, "That would never happen, thank goodness!" and then remembered when it did.
I went in expecting intense m/m romances, because that is most of what Amy Lane publishes. There are a few; there are more m/f couples, and they are sweet and believable. There are people who have trouble settling down. The main character, and all the sword-wielders, are male, but there are plenty of strong, capable females, and the whole thrust of the tale is anti-misogynist, which is always a good thing.
In short, I would recommend this series.
Yes, she can write epic fantasy. The focus is more on the individuals' feelings than perhaps is common in the genre, but the story is epic and compelling and deftly plotted and told. The cost of being an epic hero is also conveyed, very movingly. Characters who are, on first meeting morally ambiguous or unappealing sometimes turn out to have unexpected depths. Love has many faces, even within the same relationship. The world is quite contained (a handful of small countries and city/states), but the battle for the soul of a people is as significant as the battle against the end of the world, and has far more real-world echoes, sadly. (Time after time I thought, "That would never happen, thank goodness!" and then remembered when it did.
I went in expecting intense m/m romances, because that is most of what Amy Lane publishes. There are a few; there are more m/f couples, and they are sweet and believable. There are people who have trouble settling down. The main character, and all the sword-wielders, are male, but there are plenty of strong, capable females, and the whole thrust of the tale is anti-misogynist, which is always a good thing.
In short, I would recommend this series.
January 2, 2021
Discovering the first 90 % of this saga brings a shock. How can such a talented writer be ignored by the commentariat in such a blatant way? Everything is brilliant in most of this masterpiece. The storytelling, the political point of view, the interaction between characters and the witted dialogues are more than surprising. Reading page after page becomes addictive. That’s the gift to the reader.
The last 10 % of the saga explain why this masterpiece is not adapted to our era of immediate pleasure and sectarian identity. This great book did not meet the success it deserved because it’s a gift to the other authors as well. As a mother and a teacher, Amy Lane knows that education is not only about pleasure. She wanted her public to move along. In order to do that, she introduced a distance between the readers and the characters at the end, probably knowingly.
Amy Lane’s forte is about sweetness. Bitterness, guilt, sorrow, violence or even despair are not the material she craves to use. Her intelligence is so obvious that she was certainly aware of the unpleasant aspect of the last pages in Bitter Moon. She wanted a bitter ending to make us imagine what a bitter-sweet ending could have been. Ann Sommerville makes exactly the opposite choice in Falling from a Tree, and I will not deny that I prefer this other book, but Amy Lane’s goal was highly respectable, and we can admire her saga.
The last 10 % of the saga explain why this masterpiece is not adapted to our era of immediate pleasure and sectarian identity. This great book did not meet the success it deserved because it’s a gift to the other authors as well. As a mother and a teacher, Amy Lane knows that education is not only about pleasure. She wanted her public to move along. In order to do that, she introduced a distance between the readers and the characters at the end, probably knowingly.
Amy Lane’s forte is about sweetness. Bitterness, guilt, sorrow, violence or even despair are not the material she craves to use. Her intelligence is so obvious that she was certainly aware of the unpleasant aspect of the last pages in Bitter Moon. She wanted a bitter ending to make us imagine what a bitter-sweet ending could have been. Ann Sommerville makes exactly the opposite choice in Falling from a Tree, and I will not deny that I prefer this other book, but Amy Lane’s goal was highly respectable, and we can admire her saga.
June 19, 2018
There could have been more Brown folks, but that is the extent of my criticism. I almost always want there to be more Brown people...
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