Series
Deverry
Katharine Kerr · 4 novels · 1986–1990
Katharine Kerr's Deverry cycle opens with a first tetralogy (Daggerspell, Darkspell, The Bristling Wood, The Dragon Revenant, 1986-1990) set in Deverry, a Celtic-flavored kingdom on an Earth-like world reached through a parallel dimension. The books interleave a present-day plot -- the immortal sorcerer Nevyn's centuries-long quest to right an old wrong, tangled up with a noblewoman named Jill, her mercenary lover Rhodry, and a plot against the kingdom -- with flashbacks to the characters' earlier incarnations, whose unfinished business is still shaping events.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Deverry at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s3
- 1990s1
Shape
4 novels
1 author
reads like:epic fantasywizardssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Bristling Wooddarkest · calmest
- Daggerspellbrightest
- The Dragon Revenantmost intense