Bardic Voices · Book 3

The Eagle and the Nightingale

by Mercedes Lackey

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
410
ISBN-13
9780006480365
Type
novel

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About this book

The Eagle and the Nightingale is the third book in the Bardic Voices series, published in 1996. In the reading order it comes after The Robin and the Kestrel and before Four and Twenty Blackbirds. It runs 410 pages.

Its place in Bardic Voices

The Eagle and the Nightingale is book 3 in the Bardic Voices series. It follows The Robin and the Kestrel. It is followed by Four and Twenty Blackbirds. 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…

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