Series
Tiger and Del
Jennifer Roberson · 8 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 1985–2022
Jennifer Roberson's fantasy series pairs Tiger, a desert-born sword-dancer from the south, with Del, a Northern swordswoman trained in her own tradition of blade-magic, as reluctant partners across a hostile borderland. Beginning with Sword-Dancer and continuing across six numbered novels, the series follows their partnership, and eventual romance, through decades of adventures and shifting political stakes.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Tiger and Del 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
- 1980s5
- 1990s2
- 2000s1
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
8 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:sword and sorceryquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book10 of 10 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Sword-Bearerdarkest · calmest
- Sword-Dancerbrightest
- Sword-Singermost intense