Twelve Houses Novel Mystic and Rider, Book 1, (Paperback)

from rivkat

It's been a while since I read a Shinn book; this one had a lot of plot and a subsidiary romance between a mystic-a person with magical powers, here to control fire-and a King's Rider, a soldier assigned to guard her. Senneth is a mysterious emissary from the king, sent to poke around the country...

from zjakkelien

Loved it. This was very easy to read, which is always a good thing. I really liked the characters, especially Senneth (the main character) of course, but I also liked Kirra, Cammon, and later the two riders. In the beginning the riders are behaving annoyingly prejudiced, of course, but they stay ...

from LisaMaria_C

I'm giving this book a relatively low score because this first one struck me as a rather generic Sword and Sorcery. The backdrop is faux pseudo-European. The King's Riders reminded me of Lackey's Heralds (albeit without the magical trappings) and as for the dilemma of the mystics? I can't agree w...

from pwaites

From the cover blurb: "Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated... The King knows there are those in the noble Twelve Houses who could use this growing di...

from crazybatcow

I'll give it 4 stars because it's part of a series so one is expected to keep reading in order to reach fulfillment. If it were a stand alone novel, I'd probably give it 3.5 stars. It's a fast read and not very "deep". Shinn's Archangel series has much more "meat" to it than this... here there ar...