Sing the Warmth

Singers of Nevya #2

by Louise Marley

In a world where summer comes once every five years, the unconventional Cantrix Sira is freed from captivity after training another Singer to bring warmth to the people of Nevya, but she fears that the Singers are dying out. Original.

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Fiction

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1996

About the author

Louise Marley, a former concert and opera singer, has published nineteen novels. As Louise Marley, she writes fantasy and science fiction, including THE TERRORISTS OF IRUSTAN and THE CHILD GODDESS. Writing as Cate Campbell, she published the historical trilogy BENEDICT HALL.

Reviews

[Trux · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm enjoying this trilogy, but there are some annoying elements (how REPULSIVE they think a woman's body is in labor & childbirth, for example) and I still don't think the numbers add up in terms of how many houses and people and singers and cantors there are (or aren't, especially relative to one another) on the world of Nevya, which is either a flaw in Marley's world-building or my lazy sense of math not being very smart.

I think some of the annoying elements for me are almost what have me interested in finishing the series so I can see whether or not they are resolved (abstinence vs. The Gift), but I think I'd read them anyway because I'm loving other aspects of the story(ies). The pace is kind of slow, though.