Green Rider (3 book series)

I found this series through a listamania search on amazon. I type in the name of an author I love, and then I see what books people recommend in addition the author I know I enjoy, and then I get those books.

I was not disappointed. I think I read the whole 3 book series in 3 days or less. Once I started the first book, pages in, I was hooked and I kept reading until I got to the end of book three. Then I went and searched for a 4th book on the series (she is planning on it, working on it, but the publishing date is too far away to even give a general timing yet... and you will want to know this information after book 3).

The heroine is Karigan, who got kicked out of school for fighting, and is on her way home when she is asked to carry a message to the king. Oh, and then the previous messenger dies, and she is being chased by the people who killed him. This is all within a few pages of starting the book! For the majority of the first book, you follow her journey as she tries to take the message to the king. Along the way she makes friends, she discovers who it was that gave her the message, she has to fight the people chasing her, and through all this she is discovering her own identity as well.

The sequels are equally exciting and unpredictable. There is a good deal of magic, and fantasy elements (ghosts, swordfights) which you would expect in any fantasy book, but there is also romance, humor and political problems interwoven as well.

It is a rare and wonderful thing to find a series in which you don't feel a moment of boredom from the time you pick up the first book until the end of the third. I am honestly disappointed that these three are the only books that this author has written because they are so well written. I will definitely read the fourth one whenever it is written as well.

Although most of the story is following Karigan, I appreciate it when the author shifts views and follows the villians or other characters in the story as well, for a more well rounded perspective of what is taking place in this world.

I highly recommend that you read these books, you won't be disappointed.

Out of 5* possible-
***** Overall
***** Hooking me into the story
***** Desire for a sequel
***** How far removed from this world