Sword, Ring, Chalice

Although I agree with some other reviews that the ending seemed rather rushed,this is one of the best Trilogies I've read.I couldn't put it down.Needless to say ,at three in the morning that can be a problem! Deborah Chester has the ability to draw the reader into the story and feel a kinship to her characters.You feel their losses,triumphs,and,yes,sometimes you wanted to slap some sense into Dain,or Alexeika.Pure Fantasy,but with all the human foibles and emotions that make you feel that you are living the story.I want more! If you read The Sword,The Ring and The Chalice,you would love Ann Marston's Rune Blade Trilogy,and the followup Trilogy,The Sword in Exile.Some of the best.

Trust me, all three books in this series are hard to put down once you start reading them. Although, I am a little sad that there will be no more books in this series after the book 'The Chalise.' I was looking forward to reading more about the characters I've come to love. Buy the book, you won't regret it.

I finished reading this a week ago and still can't get it out of my head. I love Deborah Chester's lack of dramatism in death. It makes the long death scenes in other books so unrealistic and immature by comparison. It's a refreshing viewpoint, and I'm glad she wrote it! The plot was magnificient, finally, the two main characters MEET each other! Alexeika is a dynamic character--I wouldn't have guessed of her *betrayal*, but it added so much depth to her character and made her so much more human than Dain, who did seem a little too *royal* for a common eld-boy. Regardless, a well written book, and I hope she writes some more about Nether!

Everything about this book is amazing. The characters are well developped and realistic. The scenes are well described and the descripions do not carry on for pages on end. You can easily picture the scene taking place, something I have rarely found in books. You can imagine the Gantese city and the dwarf village. You can see Alexeika in the river and Dain in the hall of the believers. The characters seem real and you feel annoyed at them when, like Gavril, they are pompous and self centered. You feel embarassed for them when they do something stupid. You feel frustrated when they do and sorry for them when they die or when their companions die. It's not like reading a book it's like beeing part of it.