The Ki and Vandien Quartet · Book 2
The Windsingers
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN-13
- 9780007112531
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Windsingers (1984, 392 pages), nearly doubling the opener's length, sends Ki and Vandien across the series' magic-touched landscape, including the unforgettable sequence trapped between worlds inside a sentient magical gate that gives the book its name.
Its place in The Ki and Vandien Quartet
The Windsingers is book 2 in the The Ki and Vandien Quartet series. It follows Harpy's Flight. It is followed by The Limbreth Gate. See the full The Ki and Vandien Quartet reading order.
Before adopting the pen name Robin Hobb for the Farseer books, the author published as Megan Lindholm, and the Ki and Vandien quartet -- also known as the Windsingers series -- is her earliest sustained fantasy work. Ki is a hardened wagon-driver grieving the deaths of her husband and children; Vandien is a wandering swordsman who talks his way into becoming her partner. Harpy's Flight (1983) begins their reluctant partnership as Ki, still raw with grief, is forced back onto the road, and the following three…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007112531