Bardic Voices · Book 4
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780006480358
- Type
- novel
About this book
Four and Twenty Blackbirds is the fourth book in the Bardic Voices series, published in 1997. It follows The Eagle and the Nightingale, closing out a series that ran from 1992 to 1997. It runs 320 pages.
Its place in Bardic Voices
Four and Twenty Blackbirds is book 4 in the Bardic Voices series. It follows The Eagle and the Nightingale. See the full Bardic Voices reading order.
Set in a world where music carries literal magical power, the Bardic Voices novels follow the Free Bards — traveling musicians who operate outside the rigid, guild-controlled Bardic tradition of the kingdom of Rayden, and who use their music to protect ordinary people (and the nonhuman folk the establishment distrusts) from corrupt authority. The Lark and the Wren introduces Rune, a talented but penniless fiddler who wins a bardic apprenticeship through a duel with Death itself, and follows her collision with the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006480358