Daggerspell - Katharine Kerr Book Review

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"When Nevyn was a young man he started a chain of events that would alter the lives of the people closest to him. He then spends hundreds of years and several life-times trying to set things to right. In all this a fight between good and evil is ragging and Nevyn is at the center of it all. " Maggie, Resident Katherine Kerr Scholar

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Plot
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - search for identity/new understanding - coping with mental/magical powers
War or Invasion Yes
Major kinds of combat: - hand to hand - sword fights
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - mage/magician
Age: - long lived adults
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - can change shapes - fire/lightning/weather cntrl - can cast many different spells
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Profession/status: - mage/magician
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some

Setting
Terrain - Mountains - Forests
Earth setting: - during "Tolkien" (fairytime) times
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to torture
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of touching personal anatomy - descript. of private male anat.
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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