Fantasy novel focussing on a young noble named Kelios with some very unusual powers, who is going to a place of learning for magic. A very big part of her life is a memory of her mother's death and a vendetta against her mother's murderer. I picked this up because I was interested to see Hamilton's earlier work. This has a very different voice from the paranormal/urban fantasy novels Hamilton is famous for. It's a straight fantasy, and the writing is in an easy to read style, but this book feels like the second book of a trilogy rather than the standalone it is - there are a lot of references to an adventure the heroine Kelios had before that sounds like it deserves it's own novel, and a lot of references to terms I had to guess at. For instance, I believe Kelios is both an Enchanter and a Sorcerer, but Hamilton doesn't explain the difference. It also felt like a third book could have come after this one because of left over plot strings, plus only towards the end do I feel that I am beginning to get into Kelios's character and a couple of other characters. Leaves me wanting. On top of that, there is a lot of battling and fighting in this book and very little explaining. I'd recommend this as light reading but with a warning that you may feel unsatisfied.

Is there another one after this book? Cause this one just dropped you off at nowhere! With as slow and hard as it was too read, it still should have been more at the end then that. There were several times I almost put it down but each time I came back and read the other reviews so I thought it might get better. It just got slower! But now that it just dropped off, I would like to know what happens to so many that they just said were missing in the end. That just sucked, you don't just drop a reader like that, even on a good book unless there is one after it.

I have read the entire Anita Blake series by this author and short of too much sex in some of them, they are really good. So to get my hands on this one and to expect the same was disappointing. She never even said what happend to the dragon teacher let alone if anyone else survives the keep attack, who does that?

Definitely different than the Anita Blake series. A bit difficult to get through at times due to some of the vocabulary (unless you're used to reading fantasy novels). A good read nonetheless.

There's a lot of "story" in this one book, almost like you picked up one of a series in the middle of the run. I did enjoy it though.

Debut novel of the author of the Anita Blake series.

Not entirely horrible, but not as well-written as the more famous series. Hamilton's "noir" style doesn't work as well for sword-and-sorcery.

The mark of a demon can open the door to undreamed-of powers and possibilities - or expose a soul to the darkest and most forbidden forces of sorcery. Now Keleios wears the mark - and the time of avenging her mother's death is at hand....

"In an epic battle of good versus evil, of enchanted swords and shapeshifting dragons, of unquenchable hatred and unlikely love, Keleios must battle her own demons before she can earn the most important power of all- the power to forgive."

I love this book, always have. It is a shame she never went back to the world or fleshed it out in anyway. I want as many people as possible to read it, because it was the first book for a very new author before she became to tired to write anymore.

loved it!!! different tho

Decent read. Obviously early work from Hamilton but not porn either.

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As said by some others, it is hard to believe that this is a book that is not part of a series. So many characters and even subjects are brought in, and it is assumed we know something about them. And then there are so many loose ends when the story finishes. Also, there is fighting for most of the book...and do we ever really know why? There is so much left unexplained and I'm not sure how I feel about the book. Let's just say that while it entertained me, I will not be recommending it to others.

I know this is her first novel, but I wasn't impressed with the one fight scene that lasted almost a third of the book. Her later novels are much, much better.

Early Laurell Hamilton that was a pleasant surprise.

From back cover: Author of the New Youk Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, Laurell K. Hamilton has brought the supernatural to light--and has given readers a vision of a world aflame with electrifying suspense and violent passions.
In this, her debut novel, her righ imagination spreads its wings in a tale of a woman known as sorcerer, prophet, and enchantress.
The mark of a demon can open the door to undreamed of powers and possibilities---or expose a soul to the darkest and most forbidden forces of sorcery. Kelios now wears a demonmark, and the time for avenging her mother's murder is at hand . . .
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This is clearly an early book, not as polished a work as Hamilton's Anita Blake or Merry Gentry novels. But it's still a good and imaginative read, though the story leaves some loose threads hanging.

This was a hard book to read, it took a while to fighter out the chacters.

A tale of a woman known as sorcerer, prophet, and enchantress.
The mark of a demon can open the door to undreamed-of powers and possibilities-or expose a soul to the darkness and most forbidden forces of sorcery. Now Keleios wears the mark-and the time of avenging her mother's death is at hand...

Interesting, but not nearly as good as her more advanced works.

One of Laurell K. Hamilton's first books. Supernatural and sorcery.

Did not really get into this book.

Laurell K. Hamilton's spellbinding debut novel.

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