Read moreīetter than Red Sister! it picks up two years later, with a useful prologue filling in the missing details. Oh, and did I mention that those Darkover books are some of my favs, so you can imagine how much I love this series.And now I'm on to Holy Sister, the conclusion to this marvelous series. I read those books a long time ago but the premise here is the same different races have come to a planet and develop various powers as a result. This series takes place on Abeth, a planet with a dying sun that reminds me of Darkover, the planet that's the setting of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books. It's somewhat unique, I think, to fantasy books. Lawrence's work is how he sneaks some science and technology in as the basis to his fantasy worlds. It's a bit of a conundrum as the author has also written some chapters throughout the series that show Nona as older, so I know she survives (at least until then), but his writing still manages to make me doubt that she and her friends will get out of the really bad situations they get into. The last third of the book was so exciting that I powered through to see what happens next. We finally get to meet Sherzad, the chief villain who's also behind the rest of Nona's foes. She's about fifteen now, working her way up through the Sister's hierarchy. In fact, she's the Shield to the Chosen One, sort of a guard, with her own powers and strengths. One of the things I like most about this series is that the protagonist, Nona Grey, is not the Chosen One.
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