They're likeable, but as currently bitter curmudgeon, I did not feel the 'aThis book is made of fluffy huggy things and the old TV movie Pride & Prejudice moment when Colin Firth's Mr Darcy is shirtless and all flustered.

The book leaves and breathes with Halla and Sarkis and the reader's investment in them. Instead, it's a story of two characters, both eminently likeable, developing feelings for each other, while having a few adventures along the way. There's no big quest, no saving-the-world shenanigans, no ticking clock. Swordheart is a story on a different scale from other T Kingfisher and Ursula Vernon novels I have read. There's a lot of travelling along that one road in the story, with a few small and big adventures along the way. Their adventure is basically a journey along a road to the nearest town (some days' travel away) and the nearest city (a few more days of travel), and back. Sarkis is a fierce warrior, not blessed with the greatest patience in general (but a huge amount of patience with Halla, even if he tends to mutter under his breath and bang his head against any nearby solid surface a lot), and generally up-tight and upstanding and cut from the very same cloth as Clocktaur Wars' paladin character. Halla is likeable, naive, filled with child-like curiosity and wonder, downtrodden and very not-confident. Swordheart is a fairly straightforward romantic adventure. Only, as she draws it, a warrior magically appears: Sarkis, servant of the sword, is sworn to protect its wielder. Seeing no other way out, she tries to kill herself with an old sword that has been hanging on the wall for years. Said relatives (by marriage) don't want to let the fortune leave the family, and so they are preparing to force her to marry her clammy-handed, limp cousin-in-law. Unfortunately, she has inherited a fortune after caring for a curmudgeonly collector and rogue uncle for years. Halla, our heroine and a respectable widow, starts the novel locked up in her room, imprisoned by her awful relatives. Ursula Vernon) set in the same world as the marvellous Clockwork Boys duology. The comments in this thread will include spoilers for the entire book.Swordheart is a romantic adventure novel by T Kingfisher (a.k.a. Possibly Others (2nd Chance, Personal Recommendation, etc.)Īnd of course, Goodreads Book of the Month Local Author (grew up in Oregon and Arizona college in Saint Paul, Minnesota lives in North Carolina, US) and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all.

When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate.

Swordheart by t kingfisher