Lackey, Mercedes

Heirs Of Alexandria

It is the year 1537. The great winged Lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that...

This Rough Magic

Originally published: New York: M.S. Mill Co.: Distributed by W. Morrow, c1964.

Much Fall Of Blood

First Time in Paperback. Three Top Writers Continue the Epic Fantasy Adventure Begun in the Best-Seller The Shadow of the Lion. Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly...

Shadow Of The Lion

Rich and complex high fantasy, set in an alternate Venice. Somewhat slow, especially at the beginning, but a nice long read for that rainy day. Book gets very good if...

Exile's Honor

Ok, I might take a lot of flak for this, but I think she is, in general, a horrific author. Her plots tend to muddle around in never-never-land and characters...

Exile's Valor

This brand new, stand-alone novel in the Valdemar series continues the story of prickly weapons-master Alberich... Once a heroic Captain in the army of Karse, a kingdom at war with...

Joust

If you want a fresh (and more fantasy instead of sci-fi) update to the Pern series, you probably won’t find anything closer than Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jouster series. They are...

Alta

Raising a dragon from infancy to form a special bond, Tian dragon-boy Vetch and his crimson dragonet Avatre arrive in Alta, where he must gain the trust of his countrymen...

Sanctuary

A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at...

Aerie

In the fourth and final novel of Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters series, Kiron, the man who had once been a dragon-boy called Vetch, has united the dragon riders and managed...

Four And Twenty Blackbirds

Lackey tends to write short series of books, trilogies and such. This is the fourth book in her Bardic Voices series. Tal Rufen, the local constable, begins to notice a...

By The Sword

By the Sword is full of kickass women. Kerowyn is the granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, runs the family keep, loves hunting and training horses....