3.5
The Harp of Kings
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A young woman is both a bard—and a warrior—in this thrilling historical fantasy from the author of the Sevenwaters novels.
Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a rare talent on the harp. But Liobhan's burning ambition is to join the elite warrior band on Swan Island. She and her brother train there to compete for places, and find themselves joining a mission while still candidates. Their unusual blend of skills makes them ideal for this particular job, which requires going undercover as traveling minstrels. For Swan Island trains both warriors and spies.
Their mission: to find and retrieve a precious harp, an ancient symbol of kingship, which has gone missing. If the instrument is not played at the upcoming coronation, the candidate will not be accepted and the kingdom will be thrown into disarray. Faced with plotting courtiers and tight-lipped druids, an insightful storyteller, and a boorish Crown Prince, Liobhan soon realizes an Otherworld power may be meddling in the affairs of the kingdom. When ambition clashes with conscience, Liobhan must make a bold decision—and the consequences may break her heart.
Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a rare talent on the harp. But Liobhan's burning ambition is to join the elite warrior band on Swan Island. She and her brother train there to compete for places, and find themselves joining a mission while still candidates. Their unusual blend of skills makes them ideal for this particular job, which requires going undercover as traveling minstrels. For Swan Island trains both warriors and spies.
Their mission: to find and retrieve a precious harp, an ancient symbol of kingship, which has gone missing. If the instrument is not played at the upcoming coronation, the candidate will not be accepted and the kingdom will be thrown into disarray. Faced with plotting courtiers and tight-lipped druids, an insightful storyteller, and a boorish Crown Prince, Liobhan soon realizes an Otherworld power may be meddling in the affairs of the kingdom. When ambition clashes with conscience, Liobhan must make a bold decision—and the consequences may break her heart.
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“Once it got going, I enjoyed this book! I was expecting this to be a bit faster read, and the premise of a warrior bard trainee going out on a mission was so cool to me and really appealed to my lil D and D loving heart.
However, this is the longest I have taken to read a book in a really long time— I started this at the end of January and it’s March 3! I would read a couple chapters at a time because of the descriptions and character development taking so long I felt like the plot wasn’t progressing.
In terms of characters, Liobahn was supposed to be the main character and I liked her at first but she got a bit whiny and woe is me in the middle of the book. I will say that I started listening to the audiobook part of the way through to try to get more into the book, and her narrator was kinda aggravating.
It started getting good around chapter 19, this is when the quest really starts questing. You get a Wise Woman storyteller, two different perspectives of people going AWOL, and a surprisingly good character arc for someone who I was SURE I was going to hate the whole book. I ended up looking forward to Dau’s chapters at the end, and while I wasn’t originally sure that I was going to continue the series after this book, I find myself wondering what’s gonna happen with Day and Liobhan and if the rivals are really going to become lovers.
As someone who can’t see images in their mind, some bits of this were too flowery language description-y for me. I also truly didn’t understand why Liobhan spent so much time with Aisilinn in the beginning, I was ready for action and not whistle lessons, but it all made sense in the end. This is NOT written in a contemporary style, very high fantasy, which I wasn’t prepared for but then got used to. All in all, it was a nice read, even though it was different than my usual fantasy/romantasy”Start a Book Club
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