Neb has an important destiny, and like so many of us, he doesn’t know it. To make his situation more curious, it isn’t just that he’s not aware he is special; this incarnation can’t seem to remember where the previous one left off -yet. You wouldn’t think a little thing like death and rebirth could make you forget 400 years as a dweomermaster who sacrificed everything for his art.

This book primarily sets the warp and woof to reweave the strings of fate into the fabric that was originally intended. All of the ancient characters have been reborn at the same time with memories slowing floating home across the River of Forgetfulness and Neb will be able to fulfill the promise he made those many years before.

The thing I want to emphasize about Gold Falcon is that is it a good book. It isn’t ground-breaking or filled with amazing twists of logic or escapades that chill you. It is straight-up good storytelling, solid and well told. Kerr does an excellent job of making sure that the first-time Deverry reader (me) doesn’t get left behind by having missed the last 20 years of history or get overwhelmed with retelling previous storylines. I believe that you can step into this series with Gold Falcon and enjoy it to the end. But why? Since it will be at least another year before the next book comes out, we have plenty of time to start with Daggerspell and read the previous eleven installments of the Deverry epic before it gets here!