Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

by Jacqueline Carey

English language

Published April 16, 2003

ISBN:: 978-0-330-49374-1

(7 reviews)

Kushiel's Dart is a fantasy novel by American writer Jacqueline Carey, the first book in her Kushiel's Legacy series. The idea for this book first came to Carey when she was reading the Biblical Book of Genesis, and specifically a passage about "sons of God" coming into the "daughters of Men". Later, when she was writing a coffee table book, she encountered Jewish folklore, which paralleled the story in greater detail. The fictional nation of Terre D'Ange in the story was founded by a rebel angel.

4 editions

bondolo reviewed Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (Kushiels' Legacy, #1)

Uneven

3 stars

Interesting start to a world but the writing was quite uneven and I did feel as well plotted as it could have been. I liked some of the stylized language and manners but sometimes it seemed like the author forgot to use them for a sentence or a scene. I felt that N K Jemisin was more successful in pulling off the unconventional language in both the Broken Earth and Hundred Thousand Kingdoms books.