Owlknight follows Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon's two earlier
novels about Darian Firkin, Owlflight and Owlsight. By now the boy
who ran from barbarian invaders is both knight of Valdemar and a
master mage; he is governor of a small province and in love with
Keisha who returns his feelings, but he still has problems and
responsibilities. For one thing, he has never solved the mystery of
what happened to his parents. For another, Keisha refuses to marry
him lest his role as governor and hers of healer come into
conflict--and there are still barbarians beyond the border who
threaten one day to come back. The story of how these problems are
all resolved is told in a quiet tone unusual in this sort of epic
fantasy. Darian has as much to look within for the solution to these
issues as to struggle in the outside world. The woodland journey
during which he does this is much of the time a celebration of the
renewal of the human soul by the natural world. Lackey and Dixon have
found a courtly, meditative way of telling an attractively simple
story. Darian's growth to final maturity is inevitable, but still
fascinating. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk
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