Bedlam's Bard · Book 5

Mad Maudlin

by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
538
ISBN-13
9780743499057
Type
novel

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Cover of Mad Maudlin

About this book

By 2003's Mad Maudlin, the fifth book and third Lackey-Edghill collaboration, the series had grown to 538 pages -- its longest entry -- continuing to use Eric's Bardic gift as a way of dramatizing music's real capacity to heal trauma.

Its place in Bedlam's Bard

Mad Maudlin is book 5 in the Bedlam's Bard series. It follows Spirits White as Lightning. It is followed by Music to My Sorrow. See the full Bedlam's Bard reading order.

Set in the same contemporary "elves on the road" universe as the SERRAted Edge novels, Bedlam's Bard follows Eric Banyon, a classically trained musician whose magical Bardic gift (music that can heal, charm, or fight) pulls him into the hidden world of elves living quietly among modern humans. Knight of Ghosts and Shadows and Summoned to Tourney , co-written with Ellen Guon, introduce Eric and the elven refugees he becomes entangled with while he's still a Juilliard student moonlighting in a rock band. After a…

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