I read Morgan Howell's The Shadowed Path trilogy (A Woman Worth Ten Coppers, Candle in the Storm, and The Iron Palace) based primarily on the back of the book blurb on the first book:
Before I dive into more detail and spoilers, the one thing I wish I'd known before reading is that this trilogy takes place in the same world as Howell's previous books, the Queen of the Orcs trilogy. I like to read things in order, and if I'd known that, I would have read those books first. (I have no idea if they would have made me more interested in reading these or if it would have prevented it. I'm certainly not going to go back and read them now.)
The rest of this post involves spoilers. The books contain sexual violence, including rape, and this post involves discussion of those elements.
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I held onto the books as I read them (I had someone in mind to pass them on to who would have liked them if they had turned out to be the slave AU they might have been), so if, even after all of that, you're inclined to read them, let me know and you can have my copies. I'll hold onto them for a week or so before listing them on PaperBackSwap.
Seer, healer, goddess, slave - she is all these things and more.It sounded like it could be a good slave AU. It got a little iffy in the second book, but by then I was so involved in it that I couldn't stop. The third book is terrible.
Yim is a young woman suddenly cast into slavery, a gifted seer with a shocking secret - and a great destiny. Honus is a Sarf, a warrior dedicated to the service of the compassionate goddess Karm. A Sarf's sole purpose is to serve a holy person called a Bearer. But Honus's Bearer has been killed by the minions of an evil god known only as the Devourer. Masterless and needing someone to bear his pack, Honus purchases Yim for the price of ten coppers - and their fates are forever entwined.
Before I dive into more detail and spoilers, the one thing I wish I'd known before reading is that this trilogy takes place in the same world as Howell's previous books, the Queen of the Orcs trilogy. I like to read things in order, and if I'd known that, I would have read those books first. (I have no idea if they would have made me more interested in reading these or if it would have prevented it. I'm certainly not going to go back and read them now.)
The rest of this post involves spoilers. The books contain sexual violence, including rape, and this post involves discussion of those elements.
( Spoilers )
I held onto the books as I read them (I had someone in mind to pass them on to who would have liked them if they had turned out to be the slave AU they might have been), so if, even after all of that, you're inclined to read them, let me know and you can have my copies. I'll hold onto them for a week or so before listing them on PaperBackSwap.