In the Lion's Mouth (Hardcover) by Michael Flynn

from AlanPoulter

The feel of this novel and its two predecessors, January Dancer and Up Jim River is unique. It combines a sort of 'space opera' approach with dialogue and description from what seems like classic mythic literature, where yarns are spun about heroes and villains, and spaceships, even when in quant...

from orkydd

Michael Flynn's entertaining 'Spiral Arm' series continues with a 3rd volume 'In the Lion's Mouth', where the tale of a convoluted battle between factions of Confederal Shadows and Those of Name is played out across the Rift, related as a chant by one Ravn Olafsdottr to the Red Hound Bridget Ban ...

from Arconna

Michael F. Flynn's In the Lion's Mouth is a space opera of the new variety, which is to say that it takes a genre that once stood for oversimplified adventure, sometimes of the Campbellian mode and redolent of the pulps, and infuses it with political intrigue and sociological awareness. The plane...

from mt256

In the Lion's Mouth by Michael Flynn. It's the third in the January Dancer series but for the most part it can also read as a stand alone novel. I have not read the first two novels in the series so I went into this book completely blind about the story line and characters. I think if I did read ...

from Cataloger623

January Dancer and Up Jim River were interesting explorations in a confusing universe where the Terran Empire seems to have fallen and the worlds of that empire are entering a dark age. Donavan the a character running through both books appears again as the central figure now.In the prior books t...