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Summary: A total page turner
Review: Sing the Four Quarter pulled me in and wouldn't let me go. This book and the ones to follow were hard to put down. I spent many a night awake reading to late. The emotion she places into each character is amazing; I've found many a tear in my eye. I've read all the "Quarter" books, and hope that there are more to follow.
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Summary: One of my most favorite book/series
Review: Sing the Four Quarter pulled me in and wouldn't let me go. This book and the ones to follow were hard to put down. I spent many a night awake reading to late. The emotion she places into each character is amazing; I've found many a tear in my eye. I've read all the "Quarter" books, and hope that there are more to follow.
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Summary: You won't be able to put it down.....
Review: Sing the Four Quarters was a very original book, that I greatly enjoyed. Annice, a former princess, has the gift to summon the spirits of the elements earth, water, fire, and air...so she becomes a bard. Now Annice flees from two counts of treason to avoid being executed by the king...her brother. Once you pick it up and start reading you will not beable to put it down untill you finish it! I also suggest it's sequal The Fifth Quarter..it introduces totally new characters and is almost as good as Sing the Four Quarters.
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Summary: Pregnant Heroine - Unusual and Humorous Fantasy
Review: The first paragraph of 'Sing the Four Quarters' has our heroine, Annice puking up her breakfast in the privy. Now, if this had been a romance and not a fantasy, I would have guessed right away that she was pregnant, and not cursed by a wizard or suffering some equally fantastical stomach ailment. However, this book is a fantasy and Annice's long term lover is another woman, so I was as surprised as she was, when our heroine finally visits the healer. In spite of the fact that about a quarter of the novel is spent describing Annice's pregnancy, her reaction to being pregnant, and other people's reaction to her being pregnant, it is a good read. Among those who Annice manages to rescue before giving birth are a boy who can 'sing' to air and water sprites (saved from drowning), the one-night-stand who fathered her child (who was about to lose his head to the King's executioner), and her long-term lover (who was wasting away in a dungeon). Quite a list of accomplishments for someone who had problems maneuvering her growing girth up the curves of a spiral staircase! Anyway, the characters in this book are lovingly developed, and the mix of religion and wizardry is quite intriguing. The vividly described all-night vigil in the cathedral on the longest night of the year was the hook that drew me into 'Sing the Four Quarters' and I kept going through the night until I came to story's end. Now, I'll have to order the sequel.
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Summary: Pregnant Heroine - Unusual and Humorous Fantasy
Review: The first paragraph of 'Sing the Four Quarters' has our heroine, Annice puking up her breakfast in the privy. Now, if this had been a romance and not a fantasy, I would have guessed right away that she was pregnant, and not cursed by a wizard or suffering some equally fantastical stomach ailment. However, this book is a fantasy and Annice's long term lover is another woman, so I was as surprised as she was, when our heroine finally visits the healer. In spite of the fact that about a quarter of the novel is spent describing Annice's pregnancy, her reaction to being pregnant, and other people's reaction to her being pregnant, it is a good read. Among those who Annice manages to rescue before giving birth are a boy who can 'sing' to air and water sprites (saved from drowning), the one-night-stand who fathered her child (who was about to lose his head to the King's executioner), and her long-term lover (who was wasting away in a dungeon). Quite a list of accomplishments for someone who had problems maneuvering her growing girth up the curves of a spiral staircase! Anyway, the characters in this book are lovingly developed, and the mix of religion and wizardry is quite intriguing. The vividly described all-night vigil in the cathedral on the longest night of the year was the hook that drew me into 'Sing the Four Quarters' and I kept going through the night until I came to story's end. Now, I'll have to order the sequel.
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Summary: Reminiscent of Lackey's Valdemar series
Review: The king considers his sister, Annice, to be utterly rebellious. She realizes her stubbornness, but clings on to the term "independent" rather than rebellious. Annice has the bardic talent of calling all of the elemental spirits ("kigh"): air, earth, fire, and water and she abandons her royal title to join the Bards. The king places only one restriction...no children to threaten the succession. All is going well until Annice is found to be pregnant. And the father of her unborn child is charged with treason. Annice must rescue her lover, prove him innocent, and save the life of her child. One important point: the characters do have a sense of humor, and are not the flat, "I-know-exactly-what-I'm-doing" heros/heroines from other authors. The book has much of the flavor of Mercedes Lackey's early Valdemar novels (Arrows of the Queen, etc.). Although there are several more novels set in the "Four Quarters" world, this novel is truly a "stand-alone" book. You may, however, want to visit the world again to understand the mysteries of the kigh.
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Summary: Reminiscent of Lackey's Valdemar series
Review: The king considers his sister, Annice, to be utterly rebellious. She realizes her stubbornness, but clings on to the term "independent" rather than rebellious. Annice has the bardic talent of calling all of the elemental spirits ("kigh"): air, earth, fire, and water and she abandons her royal title to join the Bards. The king places only one restriction...no children to threaten the succession. All is going well until Annice is found to be pregnant. And the father of her unborn child is charged with treason. Annice must rescue her lover, prove him innocent, and save the life of her child. One important point: the characters do have a sense of humor, and are not the flat, "I-know-exactly-what-I'm-doing" heros/heroines from other authors. The book has much of the flavor of Mercedes Lackey's early Valdemar novels (Arrows of the Queen, etc.). Although there are several more novels set in the "Four Quarters" world, this novel is truly a "stand-alone" book. You may, however, want to visit the world again to understand the mysteries of the kigh.
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Summary: THIS BOOK ROCKS!
Review: This book was one of the best I ever read. I will admit when my best friend commanded I read it, I was skeptical. Cuz fantasy was never my choice. But this book swayed my vote and now I am even reading the rest of the trilogy. I would recrementd this to everyone!!
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Summary: Well Written
Review: This book was written with a far less complicated line of "mages" than Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series. There are healers and there are Bards. The bards have the power of magic in their song. This book is about the princess bard. The next one after this could stand without this one but by book three everybody is back together in the storyline including the princess bard. I enjoyed this series. This book is the first and best of the four books in the series.
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Summary: I stayed up half the night to finish this book !!
Review: Tonya Huff's Sing the Four Quarters is a breath of fresh air amidst all the garbage predominant in fantasy novels these days. She has done a remarkable job of bringing to life a magical world of music and elemental magic without any of the stale formulaic trite so often found in the fantasy genre. It was well worth the price of the triple latte I had to buy the next morning to stay awake
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