Vows and Honor collects the Tarma and Kethry stories with which Lackey first broke through into professional publishing
I had an idiosyncratic and completely unfair reaction to these stories: a close friend of mine was reading Lackey in elementary school and described the Tarma and Kethry stories (as well as the novel about Kerowyn) in such a way that they sounded fascinating to me, which combined with the Jody Lee cover art to make me really interested; they sounded haunting and dangerous and morally ambiguous and then I tried reading the first volume and whatever my friend was getting out of them, I couldn't find it, and I went away. I re-encountered a bunch of the stories when I was collecting Sword and Sorceress for Dorothy J. Heydt's Cynthia stories in college and they felt like something I had missed the window on, but I think that was primarily my experience of Mercedes Lackey. I have good memories of Arrows of the Queen, but am deeply concerned about the books holding up. [edit] I had imprinted deeply on McCaffrey's Dragonriders also in elementary school, however, so it may be that the telepathic companion animal niche in my brain was just full.
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I had an idiosyncratic and completely unfair reaction to these stories: a close friend of mine was reading Lackey in elementary school and described the Tarma and Kethry stories (as well as the novel about Kerowyn) in such a way that they sounded fascinating to me, which combined with the Jody Lee cover art to make me really interested; they sounded haunting and dangerous and morally ambiguous and then I tried reading the first volume and whatever my friend was getting out of them, I couldn't find it, and I went away. I re-encountered a bunch of the stories when I was collecting Sword and Sorceress for Dorothy J. Heydt's Cynthia stories in college and they felt like something I had missed the window on, but I think that was primarily my experience of Mercedes Lackey. I have good memories of Arrows of the Queen, but am deeply concerned about the books holding up. [edit] I had imprinted deeply on McCaffrey's Dragonriders also in elementary school, however, so it may be that the telepathic companion animal niche in my brain was just full.