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The Sunbird.
Jul. 9th, 2012 21:56Wein, Elizabeth E. The Sunbird. New York: Firebird Books, 2006. [2004]
I've really enjoyed the first two books in this sequence, but I told myself that I had to read this one before I could even think of reading Code Name Verity, Wein's newest and completely different novel that will hopefully get these ones some renewed attention and which I am told is fantastic.
The Sunbird, though, continues Wein's Aksumite Arthuriana sequence, which she is now calling The Lion Hunters, a few years after A Coalition of Lions left off, with the viewpoint switching to Telemakos, Medraut's son and Goewin's nephew. The Plague of Justinian, a pandemic that originated in China and struck most of Europe and Asia and that is now thought to have been a strain of Y. pestis known, appropriately enough, as Antiqua, is on the march, and to save Aksum Goewin proposes a quarantine. The only problem is that someone is found out to be breaking it, and Telemakos is, willingly, sent by Goewin and the emperor to find out whom.
( Spoilers are short but intense )
I've really enjoyed the first two books in this sequence, but I told myself that I had to read this one before I could even think of reading Code Name Verity, Wein's newest and completely different novel that will hopefully get these ones some renewed attention and which I am told is fantastic.
The Sunbird, though, continues Wein's Aksumite Arthuriana sequence, which she is now calling The Lion Hunters, a few years after A Coalition of Lions left off, with the viewpoint switching to Telemakos, Medraut's son and Goewin's nephew. The Plague of Justinian, a pandemic that originated in China and struck most of Europe and Asia and that is now thought to have been a strain of Y. pestis known, appropriately enough, as Antiqua, is on the march, and to save Aksum Goewin proposes a quarantine. The only problem is that someone is found out to be breaking it, and Telemakos is, willingly, sent by Goewin and the emperor to find out whom.
( Spoilers are short but intense )