reviews_and_ramblings | 2016 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: The Dowry Blade by Cherry Potts (024-02-27-2016)

The character and setting development were well done. The plot is a good plot.

The Dowry Blade by Cherry Potts
Lesbian Fantasy
Paperback: 394 pages
Publisher: Arachne Press (February 25, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1909208205
ISBN-13: 978-1909208209
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Trust anyone, even an enemy... ...Trust no one, not even a friend. A fantasy epic of the strength and limitations of love and loyalty: between friends, lovers, kin, strangers- and enemies.Nine years after the loss of her sister, and near obliteration of her clan in an ill conceived raid, Brede, a plains' nomad, is living unwillingly in the marshes. The sudden ending of a decade long drought, brings with it many changes; rumour has it that the rain was bought at the price of a King's head, and the sword needed for such a sacrifice is missing. Change comes for Brede in the arrival of Tegan, a wounded mercenary. Brede's discovery, first of the Dowry Blade and a stolen horse, and then of Tegan's history, sets in train a journey to the capital in search of her missing sister and leads to an unexpected role in the Queen's household, and a powerful lover.

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