The Lion of Farside

by John Dalmas

Book Overview

The Macurdies had been farmers for generations, and Curtis Macurdy would have been content to spend his life with his exoticallybeautiful wife Varia, earning a living by tilling his plot of land in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671876740
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Baen
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

A good read, hard to put down

This book kept me anxiously coming back for more throughout. The plot isn't the most believable: a man forming vast alliances and launching a major war, just because his wife may be in the enemy's country? Despite that, I loved the book. Very original, good character development, positive, lots of gratuitous sex, ... By the way, it can be downloaded free from Baen's website as a teaser to the whole series. It got me hooked.

A fine fantasy novel

As these kind of stories go, I found it intelligent and original. Our young hero falls in love with a beautiful woman sometime before W.W.I. They marry and everything seems to go fine. But this woman actually comes from another world, one in which magic is common and wars are fought with bows and swords (a medieval land) connected to our own Earth through dimensional gates. It all turns sour when his wife is kidnapped, while he's away, and taken to such world. He must follow and try to save her...Curtis Macurdy will have to overcome many problems in his quest, while learning the ways of a different world. The plot was good and thoughtful. I found most interesting the progression and growth of the characters. Though ultimately sad I'm very anxious to read the sequels.My only complaint is that the sisterhood shared some similarities to Herbert's Bene Gesserit, and no book can survive any comparison (even a minor one) to Dune.