Laura H. (Morning) - reviewed on 7/19/2006 + 24 more book reviews

Kid/teen book

Surprise. Stealth. Unbalancing her enemy. These were the ways her guardian had taught her to save herself, and to win. Flaed tried to think. How could she surprise the enemy she faced now? An enemy who knew exactly where she was and how many men were with her? What would they expect her to do, and what could she do instead?

Flaed sat while her fire burned down to a ghostly flame wandering over red coals. In her mind a plan was forming, fashioned out of the day's latest discovderies and its early violence and, of all things, out of poetry. Could I really do such a thing? she asked herself as she mulled over one grisly possibility. When she first stood up, she had decided. She saw Dunstan across the yard tending his horse, and went toward him. Her first challenge would be to convince Dunstan that she could stay alive if she carried out her plan. And after I convince Dunstan, she thought grimly, I must convince myself.

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