The Eagle & The Nightingales

Mercedes Lackey knows what's up. This book was written in the nineties and it has a fantasy setting, but boy did she nail the political zeitgeist of the 2020s.......more

This book, the third in the Bardic Voices series, is probably my favorite of the three I’ve read so far. I’m still partial to Rune from the first book, but I liked the characters in this book a lot and I also enjoyed the story. The story is a bit generic, but it’s told well and it held my attention.......more

The Eagle & the Nightingales (Bardic Voices, #3) by Mercedes Lackey This is a beautiful story of love and acceptance of others no mater the differences. Mercedes Lackey looks into the problems with fear, miss understanding, and manipulation because of religion, and political goals. Nightingale is a wo......more

This just doesn't compel my attention in the way that many of the Valdemar series books by this author do. There are stretches of what amount to parades of horribles intended to raise the stakes for the protagonist. The protagonist doesn't seem to have much agency through much of the novel. The villa......more

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, even though I discovered that this Bardic series was all jumbled up on my bookshelves - my daughter always seems to enjoy poking at my OCD, bless her! Lol But, having finally got that sorted, I decided just to keep reading this one - well, only because I couldn't pu......more