Another Faerie and Mortal realm book? No way this one could be any different than the hundreds that have come before. It's an old story, literally and figuratively, and recycled so many times it's worn thin. Yet, Lynn Abbey found some new wrinkles in this tired plot, and Jerlayne surprised me.
Young Jerlayne, as with any youth, is looking to make changes in her world. She's tired of living in the shadow of her famous mother, and she knows she can shape Faerie into even more prosperity. Forming a twenty-link chain from a lump of rusted iron is the test all female elves must pass before they are considered adult and capable of homesteading, and Jerlayne's success with her chain is just the thing she needs for freedom. Marrying her elven husband and starting their own homestead are the next steps toward Jerlayne's independence. Along the way to carving their home from the wild mists, Jerlayne will also start a long chain of questions that will lead her through perils and enlightenment from which only her strength, her love, and her instincts will save her.
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Jerlayne is by far Abbey's best novel since Daughter of the Bright Moon, and if you're looking for a leisurely read with just enough mystery to keep the pages turning, I recommend this one. Need some more urging? Try on Chapter One for size.
About the Book
Jerlayne copyright 1999 by Lynn Abbey
ISBN 0-88677-809-3
a DAW novel published by DAW Books, Inc. New York, NY.
Sites of Interest
- Lynn Abbey website
- a SF Site, Jeri Wright review
- write to the author labbey@iag.net
- Dragon Con's biography
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