Tiger and Del, accompanied by Neesha and Tiger's other two students, head off to find the person responsible. Freak snowstorms and tornados are wrecking havoc on their desert town, and Tiger thinks someone is targeting him. Since this is an adventure story, the characters don't stay settled for long before trouble finds them. Tiger's stud has always just been "the stud", and I was chuckling all through the first chapter at "Horse" and "Other Horse". And they do it all without even getting real names. They each have a distinct personality and contribute to the plot without veering into "Lassie" territory. Side note about the horses: I have mad respect for the way Robserson manages to make them into side characters in their own right. Between the sword-dancer school, their rambunctious daughter, and the horses-I bet I'd enjoy an entire book centered solely around their day-to-day lives. Sword-mates and life-mates, they have a healthy bond that is based on mutual respect but not without its disagreements or conflicts. I love how their relationship has grown through the books. Tiger and Del are great characters, both well-rounded and not without their flaws. The characterization, as usual, remains the best part of the story. Yet even as Tiger learns more about his gifts, Del comes face to face with the daughter she left behind so many years before. Now, with the world around them falling victim to a malignant Northern-born magic, Tiger gathers Del and his adult son, Neesha, to end the magic threatening the world-and discovers, along the journey, yet another element of magecraft within himself.
He is constantly challenged to death-dances where rules, and oaths, no longer apply. By doing so, he made himself a target of men formerly his colleagues, now sworn enemies.
Death-dances are few and far between the goal is simply to win within the confines of “the circle.”īut Tiger is an outcast, a man who attained the highest level of achievement at the training school he attended faster than anyone before him, only to voluntarily break all oaths in order to save Del. Tiger and Del have settled into semi-retirement to raise their daughter, establishing a school for those who wish to become sword-dancers, part of a highly ritualized rite in which specially trained sword-fighters are hired to settle feuds among rich and powerful desert princes. Sword-Bearer marks a return to the vivid world of Jennifer Roberson’s highly popular Sword-Dancer saga, featuring iconic characters Tiger-the South’s most famous and gifted sword-dancer-and Del, a Northern-born woman and expert sword-singer.
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