Darksong Rising by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Darksong Rising (Spellsong Cycle, #3)

by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Darksong Rising, the third book in New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle about a singer and music instructor at Iowa State University who gets far more than she expected when she is magically transported to the world of Erde.

Anna, regent of Defalk, faces enemies foreign and domestic who wish to crush her for weilding too much power as well as being a woman. Even within her own realm she faces the threat of civil war. The solutions to all of these challenges is magical, but Anna has learned that powerful magic comes at a high cost.

The Spellsong Cycle
The Soprano Sorceress
The Spellsong War
Darksong Rising
The Shadow Sorceress
Shadowsinger

Other series by this author:
The Imager Portfolio
The Saga of Recluce
The Corean Chronicles
The Ghost Books
The Ecolitan Matter

Reviewed by ibeforem on

3 of 5 stars

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This was pretty good. I was surprised how easily I was able to fall back into the series, because it’s been several years since I read the first two. I haven’t been reading much fantasy, so this was a nice change of pace.

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