The Soprano Sorceress: The First Book of the Spellsong Cycle
Written by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Narrated by Amy Landon
3.5/5
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First, though, she must figure out how to use her ability before the rulers kill her.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.
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Reviews for The Soprano Sorceress
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is for lovers of fantasy, musicians who have been forced to play the games of academia, and those who fight for equal rights of all and must suffer fools not gladly. This is a book for you. Great characters, realistic fantasy world, and a great story. this is worth the listen or read!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5L. E. Modesitt is recognized in many circles as a master at combining hard science with a great story. In the Spellsong Cycle, Modesitt shows that he can also integrate the worlds of fantasy and music as well.In Shadowsinger, music teacher Anna is translated from mundane Iowa to a world where sorcery exists, and music is the form that provides the magic. Modesitt does a more than capable job of merging music with the expected elements of a fantasy/sorcery tale. The characters are recognizable and follow expected paths. Modesitt doesn't paint a world with the details of a Tolkein or Jordan, instead focusing on the characters and their interactions with each other.The first novel of the Spellsong Cycle is an easy read and a welcome way to spend a lazy afternoon. The book reads faster than many, in part because of the lack of extraneous detail, and in part because it truly is a good story.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This is the first book in Modesitt's series, The Spellsong Cycle, about a singer from our world who is inadvertantly dragged into another world where singing controls magic.I really liked the idea behind this book, and the basic story was good - I wanted to see how it ended. Unfortunately, it wasn't very well written. There were both spelling and grammer errors throughout that were more than just poor proofreading. The parts form the heroine's point of view were written in the third person, but the sections referring to inhabitants of that world were in the first person, which I found very distracting and irritating, pareticularly because they were typically only a page or two long and thrown in at random so you never had a chance to get used to the style. Not to mention that they seemed at times rather irrelevant and unnecessarily confusing to the story.In general, I felt the narrative lacked depth and body to it - a lot of the book seemed very sparse and thin, like nothing was happening most of the time with speech just thrown in here and there. It's hard to describe - I think perhaps it just needed more description and in particular more character development. The heroine, Anna, was fairly well developed, but pretty much everyone else was very two dimensional or lacked a purpose completely. I felt this was particularly true of the character Daffyd, who should have been one of the main characters throughout the book yet didn't seem to have much purpose - he just seemed to trail along.It would have benfited, too, from more background and/or explaination of the rules and structure of the magic in the world and the circumstances of her travel between the worlds. Generally there was a lot of background detail that was not investigated which could and perhaps should have been to give the book more grounding and a feeling of reality.But despite this, I was caught up by the actual story which had a lot of potential. I wouldn't, however, choose to read any more in the series (or anything else by the same author). It was perfectly adequate as a standalone story, with no cliffhangers to entice you to read any further.