Bardic Voices · Book 1
The Lark and the Wren
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 488
- ISBN-13
- 9780671720995
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Lark and the Wren is the book that opens Mercedes Lackey's Bardic Voices series, first published in 1992. It's followed in the reading order by The Robin and the Kestrel. It runs 488 pages. The series ran to completion in 1997 across 4 books.
Its place in Bardic Voices
The Lark and the Wren is book 1 in the Bardic Voices series. It is followed by The Robin and the Kestrel. 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
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