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Evensong Heir Songbirds of Valnon Book 1 eBook L S Baird

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Evensong Heir Songbirds of Valnon Book 1 eBook L S Baird

I remember running into the early drafts of this on a website maybe ten years ago, but lost track of it. I ran into an add for it which makes this possibly the first time I've ever been glad for advertising.

As for the book itself: It would have benefited from slower pacing, and lingering a bit more to let the reader get to know the characters and the setting a bit better. It feels a bit like a lot was cut down or trimmed out, leaving it feel like what should have been two books crammed into one. Baird excels at hitting emotional beats, but the rushed pacing breaks suspension of disbelief in some parts, and when the author misses, it feels all the stranger because the author's displayed she knows how to do it well at other times in the novel and leaves it feeling somewhat incomplete.


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Evensong Heir Songbirds of Valnon Book 1 eBook L S Baird Reviews

Beautiful story and beautiful characters. No sudden episodes of falling in love, thank god. I do hope there are more books after this one. I want to know what happens two years later. I am also awfully curious about Sarin and Ellis.
A truly entertaining book, it flowed well and kept my attention the entire way through. I loved the characters, and equally loved how well the world of Evensong's Heir was developed. The author described the history and religion with great detail and really helped one get immersed in the book. I cannot wait for the next book to come out!
This book came highly recommended by a friend, so I gave it a try and I am so glad I did. Great characters, compelling story, excellent world-building - I just wanted more, more, more! A really fresh take on some of the old fantasy tropes - I can't remember the last time I read a book that felt so new, so unexpected, one that I was delighted to follow along all the many twists and turns. Beautiful writing, the imagery is just fantastic, and the music that permeates every moment of the characters' lives was so well described, I felt like I could hear it as I was reading along.

There's pretty much everything you could ask for action, adventure, mystery, romance, and political intrigue, and it all works well, without one element overshadowing the other. I can't wait for the next book in the series!
Evensong's Heir stands out as the contradiction to the popular opinions about fiction - that first books must, by default, be rough around the edges, and that self published books must be even more so. LS Baird has instead given us a book that is at least as polished as anything coming out from the mainstream publishers, if not more so, with a richly realized world and characters that suck you in and won't put you down until the end.

This is not just a romance. This is not an action novel, or a political novel. This is not the standard good vs. evil, and the side characters are anything but second string. This is an ensemble cast with a little bit of everything that comes together in a masterful whole to satisfy every taste. Even though Evensong's Heir wraps itself in a good stable place by the end I selfishly want more of these characters and more of Valnon and her people, and the "Book One" on the cover cheers me immensely - it means there's more to come!

The short version Read this book, you won't be disappointed.

The long version If you like non-fantasy-standard magic, if you like worlds with history, if you like knights with integrity and snappy dialog and a brisk but unhurried pace, if you like tasteful romance and intriguing politics and coming-of-age... You owe it to yourself to take a chance and read this book.
Lively dialogue, likable characters, engaging plot, and an original world full of music, myth, and magic makes this book stand out as the best I've read this year.

If you like coming-of-age stories, read this book. If you like music, read this book. If you like tasteful romance, read this book. If you like same-sex relationships treated like they ain't no thing, read this book. If you like fantasy and song-driven magic and prophetic dreams and politics and mysterious players and a world steeped in music and legend and mythology, read this book!

If there was anything I would have wished for, it would have been more points of view and more description of how things went from points A to B. A few times events would happen that, from one character's point of view, seemed utterly fortuitously random. The coincidence would be explained shortly after, but sometimes it made the pace of the book (which picked up considerably in the second half) almost TOO fast. Or maybe that was just me, page-turning feverishly to find out how it all ended! I would have liked to see more of Valnon, also life in the city, how the average folk went about their lives. The same with a few of the villains, who I would have liked a bit more time with to understand why they made the choices they did.

In summary, this is a great book and the only thing wrong with it is that I want more of it. Cannot wait for book 2. )
L.S Baird's novel stands ahead of the self-published pack in many ways. However, I feel she made a fundamental error of judgement by having what amounts to a key climactic moment in the middle of the novel. Everything after that seems slow and plodding by comparison.

The relationship between the protagonists also rubbed me a bit the wrong way. The helpless effete uke and capable, angsty seme dynamic never did anything for me, as a queer man, because relationships - even BDSM Dom/sub relationships - rarely play out that way IRL. I couldn't relate to either of the characters as men. They are clearly written as a female yaoi (Japanese M/M romance manga) fantasy. This is fine if you're into yaoi, but I struggle with that particular kind of relationship in fiction.

On saying that, I think this is a solid little fantasy book in most respects, and certainly hooked me in until the central climax. The worldbuilding is spectacular and the book is worth reading for that alone.
I remember running into the early drafts of this on a website maybe ten years ago, but lost track of it. I ran into an add for it which makes this possibly the first time I've ever been glad for advertising.

As for the book itself It would have benefited from slower pacing, and lingering a bit more to let the reader get to know the characters and the setting a bit better. It feels a bit like a lot was cut down or trimmed out, leaving it feel like what should have been two books crammed into one. Baird excels at hitting emotional beats, but the rushed pacing breaks suspension of disbelief in some parts, and when the author misses, it feels all the stranger because the author's displayed she knows how to do it well at other times in the novel and leaves it feeling somewhat incomplete.