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The Robin & the Kestrel (Bardic Voices, Bk 2)
The Robin the Kestrel - Bardic Voices, Bk 2 Author:Mercedes Lackey While traveling the open road together, Robin, a gypsy bard, and Kestrel, heir to a throne he does not want, try to tame a killer ghost and also foil a plot to drive all music from the land. — For the first time in paperback, a new solo novel by a fantasy great. Set in the same world as Bardic Voices, Book I: The Lark and the Wren, this fantasy n... more »ovel is "deft and readable . . . as lively as one might wish, and the reappearances of the Skull Hill Ghost from The Lark and the Wren are especially well-rendered"« less
The main characters in the book are supporting characters from the first in this series. I did not find them strong enough to carry the story. But it is a good story and I would have found the book more compelling if the first in this series had not set such a high mark. Unfortunately, you have to read the series in order to understand the backstory.