3 short stories giving the background of Priscilla and her home planet of Sintia. ( )

3 short stories giving background for Priscilla... ( )

This is a collection of three short stories about Moonhawk, a priestess of the Goddess, who in the time contemporary to Val Con yos'Phelium is also Priscialla Delacroiz y Mendoza, and her lover, the magician Lute.

We see the first meeting and adventure of Moonhawk and Lute, and a later episode in which they search for a woman's missing daughter. And finally, we see the events that lead to Priscilla/Moonhawk, centuries later than the earlier stories, to leave the temple, her culture, and the planet.

These stories are wonderful look at the background of a character who becomes very important to Clan Korval in the stories that may be more familiar to most readers. They truly illuminate Priscilla's background and formative experiences.

Recommended.

I bought this book. ( )

Three pretty good stories. Two are from the ancient past (well, not as old as the Crystal books!) - Moonhawk and Lute, in their first meeting (battling a crazy village ruler); the same, in a later story, as Lute begins to see some of Moonhawk's 'magic' (trying to find a lost girl - finding her, but no happy ending). The third is Priscilla's story, before the beginning of Conflict of Honors - how she ended up in that alley listening to herself declared dead. They're all rather mystical and fuzzy, but reasonably enjoyable. More detailed reviews on the individual stories. ( )

Truly a disappointment. Not that all things Liaden have to be good to great, but when most are, and this is not, then you are left wanting something else. Again, $10 for three very short short stories, leaves you with the impression that you have not gotten anywhere near your monies worth. The three stories, Where the Goddess Sends, A Spell for the Lost, and Moonphase deal with Moonhawk or Priscilla Delacroix y Mendoza. Fine, but she is not our present series Korval. Back story to why Liad will be what it will be but so far back that it truly does not have bearing.

The first story reminded my of the first part of Longyear work of Baraboo, when the performers are in the wilderness uniting the planet. It didn't feel new, it felt like a rehash of all derivative pieces that the boondocks just are disconnected. The second was worse. A missing person, and our protagonists will of course deduce what happened, but it is clear that the guilty culprits are introduced quickly to us (in so few pages, of course you are going to meet the villian.) The last is the only story that should have been included, and it is the least fleshed out. It is the one that has the most bearing on the series, and we have just a snippet. The authors even discuss that they only wrote it as an exercise for back story and that the first two were meant as fully fleshed short stories.

While their other Chap Book might have been worthy of something, here it shows that perhaps all who strive to write, shouldn't also be charged with their own sales. I can't recommend this to any but the die hard Liaden fan. ( )