The Great Wheel

Tredana #3

by Joyce Ballou Gregorian

With no memory of her previous visits to the magical realm of Tredana, Sibby, known as the Batur Subi, finds herself fighting against her daughter, husband, and lover

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy

308 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1987

About the author

Joyce Ballou Gregorian was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third child of the noted oriental rug dealer and expert Arthur T. Gregorian, an Armenian immigrant, and Phebe Ballou, of New England descent. She graduated from Beaver Country Day School in 1963, attended Edinburgh University for one year and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in 1968. She then taught English for one year at the Iran Bethel School in Tehran. After that she joined the family business and became it's president. She married John Hampshire in 1986 and died in 1991 in Boston, Massachusetts, at Massachusetts General Hospital, after a long battle with cancer.

Reviews

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the third in a trilogy by a women who was primarily a carpet trader and a lover of Arabian horses. A very interesting series about a girl from our world who travels into a magical one. The difference between this and a lot of other books with a similar concept is the heroine ages a lot between boooks. In the first book she is 13/14, the second in her early 20s and in the last she is in her late 30s I believe. The truly marvelous part is she acts her age in each book and makes decisions that make sense based on her age.

Also another interesting aside was in the 90s I was reading an article on how some authord, even if they aren't well known, hardly ever end up in a used book store because people who have them refuse to part with them. This author was specificly mentioned and I agree.

[Atiana · Rating 5 out of 5]

The last one of the books I loved most, it's the most amazing i think, because everything comes to an end - but completely different as one thought before. Love it. I think, I've read it now 10 times.

[Arlene Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading and LOVING the first two in this series more than 6 years prior to the release of this book, this was a tiny bit of a letdown. :( I did enjoy it, but it didn't end quite the way I wanted it to.

[Otis Campbell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Our girl Sibby is in her thirties now. She’s back in the regular world, but she's got a massive case of amnesia. She don't remember a lick about the Otherworld, the dragons, the wars, or the fact that she was basically the queen over there. She’s just trying to live a normal life and deal with a messy divorce from her regular-world husband when—BAM—the magic portal yanks her through the window for a third time. When she drops down in Tredana, she has zero clue who anybody is. She’s completely forgotten her past life, but the locals sure haven't. To them, she is the legendary Batur Subi, a grand world-conqueror who is supposed to unite the continent. Because she doesn't have her memories, Sibby gets completely turned around and manipulated by the wrong crowd. Before she even realizes what she’s doing, she finds herself leading a whole army of fierce desert nomads. And here is the kicker: she accidentally winds up waging a brutal war against her own people! We are talking about a full-blown family feud on a cosmic scale. Sibby is out on the battlefield calling the shots, completely unaware that the folks on the other side of the trenches trying to stop her are her own husband, her old rebel lover, and her own grown-up daughter! It’s like a Thanksgiving dinner argument, except everyone is wearing chainmail and swinging battle-axes. The whole book is a race against time to see if Sibby can get her head screwed on straight, remember who she actually loves, and stop the war before she accidentally wipes out her own flesh and blood. It is an incredibly wild and mature way to end a fantasy series. It throws out the happy-go-lucky "chosen one" tropes and gives you a gritty story about aging, lost memories, and how messy family ties can get when empires are on the line.

[Tina Dyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book 3 in the series. A divorcee, Sibby again slips accidentally between worlds, and becomes involved in a barbarian invasion reminiscent of that of the Huns circa 500.