Queen of Seven is a novel about the past, the present, and the future. A story about family. A story about growing up, and growing old. A story of how you can never escape your ghosts or hide your secrets forever. It’s the story of Elly, a girl blessed –– and cursed –– with more power than anyone should ever . . .
The Philosopher in Arms is the massively-revised version of my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991) set in the “Fifth Millennium” world collaboratively created with S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier. Almost 3,000 years after a human-made cataclysm reduced both human population and technology back to primitive levels, civilization is rising again slowly. Here . . .
Morgan Silver lives in the City of Night, but she is terrified of the dark. Sandy Banks lives in the City of Light, but her skin burns too easily in the sunshine. The two teenagers live in a city like no city in our world; a city divided, where magic is the controlling force and Sorcerers clash with Witches for . . .
The usual warning applies—Queen of Seven is still an ongoing regularly updated web novel and my review will be subject to change. But until then, my thoughts on Queen of Seven:
I’ve tried to write this review for a while now, but I couldn’t really think of the right words.
It takes a lot to get me involved in a web story.
I’m a sucker for good writing, and more to the point, I require it. I’ve spent too much time as an editor to avoid mentally correcting mistakes, poor flow, bad grammar, etc., when I’m trying to read for pleasure. [more . . .]