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    The Dreaming Tree
    The Dreaming Tree
    The Dreaming Tree
    Audiobook17 hours

    The Dreaming Tree

    Written by C. J. Cherryh

    Narrated by Gabra Zackman

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The classic fantasy duology, combining The Dreamstone and The Tree of Swords and Jewels in an omnibus for the first time

    It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed only with fairy voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place-the small forest of Ealdwood-which kept the magic intact, and protected the old ways. And there was one who dwelt there, Arafel the Sidhe, who had more pride and love of the world as it used to be than any of her kind.

    But fear of the world of Faery ran deep in the hearts of men, and when Ciaran Cuilean, Lord of Caer Wiell, a man with Elvish blood in his veins, found himself the object of increasing distrust and suspicion from his men, his king, and even his own family, he knew he must once again put his humanity aside and return to Ealdwood.

    For shadows of a newly awakened evil swarmed across both lands, and unless Ciaran reclaimed his haunted weapons from the Tree of Swords and joined Arafel, he would see this evil overtake not only the warm hearthstones of the mortal keeps, but the silvery heart of Ealdwood itself . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9781541445901
    The Dreaming Tree
    Author

    C. J. Cherryh

    C. J. Cherryh—three-time winner of the coveted Hugo Award—is one of today's best-selling and most critically acclaimed writers of science fiction and fantasy. The author of more than fifty novels, she makes her home in Spokane, Washington.

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    • 3/5
      Slow and a bit unfocused writing makes for a dreamy story.
    • 4/5
      Two novels of the fey, in a land where humans increase and the old ways fade. Intrude upon what's left at your peril, though a bargin made is never broken. Not CJCs finest work, but very good netherless.