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ice_of_dreamsI really love romantic fantasy, the genre is lighter than all the epic fantasy with the right amount of world building.
This is a world set in the distant future, where I presume Earthlings, decided to hop in their spaceships and colonize a new planet. Unfortunately for them, the planet was harsh, and natural disasters kept ruining the buildings and the environment that they built. In the midst of all of these natural disasters some colonizers went back to Earth, while others dealt with the natural disasters, hence sources and shields were born. Sources and shields were people who could prevent natural disasters from happening, and the world reverted to original feudal society.
The world building is great, and the way that the system works is all explained, and the societal rules, even the law is all laid out to people Even though the Pair that we're following doesn't dabble in politics and the law, it was easily explained... possibly due to the fact that the author is a lawyer.
It's fun to watch the mystery that's happening around High Scape and how Taro and Lee deal with the natural disasters and their talent arises. I have read that some people are a touch annoyed at Lee due to the fact that she really didn't have anything to be apprehensive with Taro about... but that's how prejudice works, and I liked the story all the better because of it. Because she had to overcome it, and she had to understand it.
I think this book is worth looking in to if not for the new world (it's sort of quasi-futurustic, like... Sharon Shinn's Archangel series and Robin D. Owen's Heart Mate series) but it's mostly rooted in medieval fantasy. And I am eagerly waiting to read more.
This is a world set in the distant future, where I presume Earthlings, decided to hop in their spaceships and colonize a new planet. Unfortunately for them, the planet was harsh, and natural disasters kept ruining the buildings and the environment that they built. In the midst of all of these natural disasters some colonizers went back to Earth, while others dealt with the natural disasters, hence sources and shields were born. Sources and shields were people who could prevent natural disasters from happening, and the world reverted to original feudal society.
The world building is great, and the way that the system works is all explained, and the societal rules, even the law is all laid out to people Even though the Pair that we're following doesn't dabble in politics and the law, it was easily explained... possibly due to the fact that the author is a lawyer.
It's fun to watch the mystery that's happening around High Scape and how Taro and Lee deal with the natural disasters and their talent arises. I have read that some people are a touch annoyed at Lee due to the fact that she really didn't have anything to be apprehensive with Taro about... but that's how prejudice works, and I liked the story all the better because of it. Because she had to overcome it, and she had to understand it.
I think this book is worth looking in to if not for the new world (it's sort of quasi-futurustic, like... Sharon Shinn's Archangel series and Robin D. Owen's Heart Mate series) but it's mostly rooted in medieval fantasy. And I am eagerly waiting to read more.
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Date: 2010-02-09 11:08 am (UTC)I love romantic fantasy too. Have you tried Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters series? I think you will/must love those too?
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Date: 2010-02-09 11:37 am (UTC)Oh God, lee and her denial. I think the series would end before her denial ends. Strictly speaking, though not romantic fantasy, if you liked the idea of Taro and Lee's world have you tried the Weather Warden series? (more urban fantasy, so if you don't like that then wouldn't advise you to read it), it's a bit predictable and too SACCHARINE and illogical at the later books, but similar to Source and Shield and therefore must be mentioned in any rec in conjunction to this series. Haha.
I have read Daughter of the Forest by Marillier, although not a favorite of mine, I adore it mostly because it is a retelling of the fairytale .. uhhh... Swan Prince?? Princess Swan??
(ugh bad of me to forget at a moment like this....)I haven't read the rest yet because I was really saddened by one of the brother's plight, the one who was more swan and took a family? And I didn't much like the male lead for the story, but I liked the book. I will read the rest when I see it in bookstores.Any other suggestions? *grin*