Queen Margot, Wife of Henry of Navarre (Classic Reprint)

from DinadansFriend

Vis, the world of Tanith Lee's Storm Lord Trilogy, and the follow-up Anackire series is a good place to visit. It's hard-edged stuff, trying to convey a world of active Gods rather than feel-good sorcerers. She starts in the Birthgrave, with a plausible biography of a Goddess. The books she found...

from empress8411

I read this as part of First Author Contact hosted by Red StarReviews and MillieBot Reads on Instagram. I have read Tanith Lee before, but it was a collection of short stories. This was my first exposure to a novel by her. It was good - different than my normal reading - which I appreciated. Her ...

from aeceyton

An amazing first full length novel. Beautifully written in that poetic verbose prose I love so much, with world building that hints at complexity without getting bogged in details. A strong heroine, flawed and seeking. 4 stars because to my internet addled brain, it was too long.

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A woman wakes deep beneath a mountain with no clue who, or even what, she is. She discovers a strange being who tells her she's the last descendant of a god-like race and if she chooses to live out her life and leave the mountain she'll be cursed. She decides to leave and begins her new life runn...

from SELindberg

The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee S.E. Lindberg rating: 4 of 5 stars Haunting Release: The Birthgrave is a coming of age novel of (and by) a female goddess. Tanith Lee's debut novel is adult oriented, dark fantasy. This one is epic, dosed with poetic horror and battle, and features lots of risky writi...