The Golden Queen

If you like adventurous books I recommend this one to you!!! Usually I am not the most excited fan over Star Wars but I read the Courtship of Princess Leia and thought that book was nicely written and couldn't put it down till I was finished!Gallen O'Day is a seasoned fighter, a guide, and a guard. He longs for adventure and for excitement. He has a widely known reputation for being a very efficient guard, robbers know his name and fear him. Maggie Flynn works in an alehouse and thinks Gallen is handsome and the best guard/guide around. She and Gallen have an odd sort of relationship. They have an attraction to each other but Gallen doesn't make any of the moves, thinking Maggie is too young.The adventure for Gallen starts when two strangers come to the alehouse. A man who wears two swords, walks and looks like he knows how to fight and it appears he's the bodyguard of the second stranger.The second stranger is young, beautiful, petite, and ... perfect. And to top it all off the stranger is female. Immediately Gallen feels the urge to protect her and thinks he's fallen in love. But what are two strangers who obviously are different doing here? The strangers reveal that they want to travel to the ancient arch called Geata na Chruinne. They need someone to take them there and it can't be a boy, it has to be a soldier, or someone who knows how to fight.Gallen is the only one who knows the way and who can fight. So they make a deal that they would travel there later. That night Gallen has another job to deal with. He guides and guards a man but unfortunately they meet robbers on the road. Gallen is awestruck when a sidhe helps him but is puzzled when the sidhe tells him that he will hold Gallen accountable for any oaths he makes this day. When Gallen finally returns he finds himself making an oath that he will help whoever his heart is hot to aid. And his heart is hot to aid ... the strangers. A creature, a monster that no one has ever seen the likes of before comes into town and is killed. But the strangers have seen that kind of monster before, they aren't shocked as the townspeople are. Orick knows (Gallen's bear friend) because he saw their faces and he decided to follow the two strangers and take Maggie with him.When Gallen goes to take the strangers (he finds the woman's name is Everynne and the bodyguard is Veriasse) to the arch he discovers that they have the monsters following them. When the arch appears Everynne takes a key and disappears along with Veriasse. The monsters have a key too and are about to follow them when Gallen pops out of hiding and takes the key ... going through the arch taking Maggie and Orick along. They find that they have been transported to a different world.When they manage to find Maggie and Veriasse again things become more clear. Everynne is going to challenge the Golden Queen for her position. She is the last person of a certain race called Tharrins and if she suceeds she

This is my favorite book of all times. It skips around a lot but it is very good at keeping you in suspence

I purchased this book at a bargain book sale, you know the kind where there are thousands of books all stacked on tables. I just so happened to see this one and I recognized the author. Previously I had read The Courtship of Princess Leia. Generally, I'm a some-what of a medium reader, I read this book in three days, I couldn't put it down. The action was nonstop, and then there was a little romance thrown in on top of it. I have given the book to several friends to read, and they all enjoyed it as well. I'm definately going to read the remaining two books in this series, as well anything else Wolverton decides to right. As I said, the ending was great, even though the story continues, there was no cliff hanger, and I had no clue about the ending until I read the last few paragraphs.

The Golden Queen is the beginning of the saga of Maggie Flynn, Gallen O'Day, and Orick the bear. Hired to guide an otherworlder, Everynne, to the gate to the Maze of Worlds, the three journey through the gate and help save Everynne's people from the Dronon.

I got this for Christmas of 1997, just before I turned 15. As I was going home on the bus, I decided to read a chapter. Well soon a chapter turned into two, then three, ect. By then I realized, I was home. Dave Wolverton takes you on an enchanted journey of Gallen O'Day, Maggie Flynn and their friend Orrick, a talking bear. Gallen is the bodyguard to the lovely Lady Everynne, and her Lord Escort Lord Variesse. This Book takes you on a whirlwind of magical places in the future, to save 10,000 different planets. You have to read this book it is the best I have ever read.