Kate Quinn and Stephanie Thornton are two authors who excel at characterization and motivation for both known and new historical personalities, even when they are working with less than 70 pages to do so. Carefully using some of the most familiar but ignored faces from inside the legendary city of Troy while also giving voice to a few of its relentless enemies, A Song of War deftly re-imagines and reinvents a new iteration of the oft-told story of Helen from the beginning to its end, while still staying true to the heart of the tale.
Through a wide array of voices and perspectives and several hundred pages, these talented seven authors string together a cohesive and passionate overview of some of the most famous events of the ages. Who will lie forgotten in the embers, and who will rise to shape the bloody dawn of a new age? Seven authors bring to life the epic tale of the Trojan War: its heroes, its villains, its survivors, its dead. and these are their stories.Ī young princess and an embittered prince join forces to prevent a fatal elopement.Ī tormented seeress challenges the gods themselves to save her city from the impending disaster.Ī tragedy-haunted king battles private demons and envious rivals as the siege grinds on.Ī captured slave girl seizes the reins of her future as two mighty heroes meet in an epic duel.Ī grizzled archer and a desperate Amazon risk their lives to avenge their dead.Ī trickster conceives the greatest trick of all.Ī goddess' son battles to save the spirit of Troy even as the walls are breached in fire and blood. In the shadow of Troy's gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens, heroes and cowards, seers and kings.
But the Fates have other plans-the Fates, and a woman named Helen. Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. Source: Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for review Genre: historical and mythic fiction, retellings
Authors: Christian Cameron, Libbie Hawker, Kate Quinn, Vicky Alvear Shecter, Stephanie Thornton, SJA Turney, Russell Whitefield
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