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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671878535
ISBN: 0671878530
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: December 01, 1997
Publisher: Baen
Sales Rank: 381962
Studio: Baen
Average Rating: 
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Who know the feeling when sometimes you read a character that is so bland and boring that you don't really care if they live or die? Ok - imagine that feeling of complete indifference, then multiply it by every single character in an entire book, and you have `Four and Twenty Blackbirds' in a nutshell. Sheesh!
This book takes the absolute cake for boring!
Normally I enjoy Lackey - she's one of those writers from whom you can take a book and blob out (with minimal input from your ... Read More
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I read this book AGES ago, and I still remember the plot and the story, I think it was very well written and plotted out.
As I search through the mass of Misty books I have come across some rather entertaining reviews, I think that most if not all her books are excellent reads. I don't know why I liked this one in particular, but I think it's because ML took a chance on writing in a different aspect than we are used to, and I love to see writers and songsters go out of the "norm" and ... Read More
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I've read *exactly* one other of Mercedes Lackey's books - The Firebird, which bored me to tears.
Undaunted, I read the first 2 chapters of this book on-line several years ago, managed to get into the story, and after requesting this book as a Christmas present for several years, finally decided to get it on my own.
I have not read any of the other Bardic Voices books, so I can't comment on there not being any Free Bards within the story (they are occasionally referred ... Read More
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This was actually the first of the Bardic Voices books that I read. I enjoyed it enough that I immediately bought the other books. Book 4 is able to stand on its own as a fantasy/mystery novel. I am a fan of mysteries as well as fantasies and this book was a nice combination of the two. I really liked the investigator and hope for more to come from Lackey about these new characters.
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Readers expecting the usual cast of characters from the free bard tales will be disappointed. While a few characters are carried forward from the previous books, including Ardis, Duke Arden, the Haspur Visyr, etc., this story has a new set of players. The chief protagonist is Tal Rufen, a police constable from Haldine investigation a string of mysterious and brutal murders of poor female street musicians/singers (or would be musicians) - murders committed by strangers that commit suicide, and murder ... Read More
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