The deceiver

I...I really wanted to like this. I am really glad I found out about this author and I might read some of her other stuff. It was really cool to find a book that was readable and had interesting world building just at the used bookstore. Unfortunately this book is sort of in a Lord Dunsany mode with a lot of summary and large swaths with no real conflict. Halfway through I discovered this is the first of a new trilogy in a world that has six previous books. The first came out in the seventies, so there's a lot behind this book. And therefore a lot that I just didn't understand the significance of.

It was hard to finish for those reasons, but you might like it. I'll be on the lookout for the earlier books by this author.