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April 17, 2010

By the Sword (Vows and Honor Book 04) by Mercedes Lackey

Filed under: Reviews-Fantasy — Suramya @ 9:37 PM


By the Sword (Vows and Honor Book 04)
by Mercedes Lackey

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Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother’s untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments – training horses and hunting.

But all Kerowyn’s hopes and plans were shattered when her ancestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and his fiance kidnapped. Driven by desperation and the knowledge that a sorcerer had led the attack, Kerowyn sought her grandmother Kethry’s aid, a journey which would prove but the first step on the road to the fulfillment on her destiny. For facing her family’s foes would transform Kerowyn into an outsider in her own land, a warrior bound to the spell blade Need, and a mercenary forced to choose between loyalty to her comrades in arms and the Herald of Valdemar, whom she had rescued and who in his turn had helped to awaken her to the true meaning of love and to her own unique powers of magic.

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The 4th book in the series ‘By the Sword’ features Kerowyn, the grand-daughter of the Sorceress Kethry and covers her adventures from her brutal introduction to warfare to her rise to a herald of Valdemar.

The book is an awesome read and sort of continues where the previous books ended but from a perspective of a much younger person than the previous books. It is divided into three parts and each part covers a specific phase in the life of Kero.

The last 1/3 of the book retells the tale of Valdemar’s war with Ancar but from a different perspective.

I liked the way the book talks about mercenaries and the kind of work they do. It does tend to glamorize the mercenary life a bit but has a lot of healthy doses of the non-glamorous portion of the war (the dying and killing).

Final Recommendation: A great read. Gives you a lot of background on another secondary character from the Valdemar Universe

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