"Dragonsbane", Barbara Hambly

This must have been a fairly early book on the author's part, as it is promoted on the cover as being by "the author of the Darwath Trilogy", and I have a number of her other books but not those... (I have a feeling I may have read them and returned them a long time ago; the character names ring a faint bell.)

"Dragonsbane" is refreshing and unusual in that it features a woman protagonist in a quasi-mediaeval setting who manages to be the central character in the story and save the day (and her menfolk) without stepping outside a 'female' role. ( Read more... )