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Day 4 – Favorite book of your favorite series
The stories in the Deverry books span over 500 years, and are not presented linearly (which is awesome becauseI have a short attention span the juxtaposition of past and future events shows the effects of the one on the other, without having to overstate it). We see many of the same "souls" in successive incarnations, apart from a few with particularly long lives who span several lifetimes of the others. What this means is that, for me, it's easier for me to pick a favourite time period/set of character incarnations within the series than it is to pick a particular book.
My favourite time period in the books is the 800s, in which a succession crisis plunges the kingdom into civil war, and we follow our long-lived magical hero as he helps his personally-groomed Rightful Heir win the throne back from the most powerful opposing faction. It echoes a lot of the real history of wars over kingship which plagued mediaeval Europe, without being obviously derived from any of them. It is also, to me, one of the most heartrendingly tragic sequences in the series -- in the Shakespearean sense of tragedy, in which you can see the inevitable doom coming to the characters given their own personal flaws and follies, but they don't see it, and so their deaths come crashing down around them like a thunder of fate.
Anyway, if I had to choose a particular book, I'd say The Red Wyvern, which is the one with the heaviest focus on this sequence.
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The stories in the Deverry books span over 500 years, and are not presented linearly (which is awesome because
My favourite time period in the books is the 800s, in which a succession crisis plunges the kingdom into civil war, and we follow our long-lived magical hero as he helps his personally-groomed Rightful Heir win the throne back from the most powerful opposing faction. It echoes a lot of the real history of wars over kingship which plagued mediaeval Europe, without being obviously derived from any of them. It is also, to me, one of the most heartrendingly tragic sequences in the series -- in the Shakespearean sense of tragedy, in which you can see the inevitable doom coming to the characters given their own personal flaws and follies, but they don't see it, and so their deaths come crashing down around them like a thunder of fate.
Anyway, if I had to choose a particular book, I'd say The Red Wyvern, which is the one with the heaviest focus on this sequence.
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