2024/068: Derring-Do For Beginners — Victoria Goddard

2024/068: Derring-Do For Beginners — Victoria Goddard

What matter if this was the end of her respectability? She’d never wanted that, had she? She’d wanted friends, and adventures, and to see what lay on the other side of the horizon, the Empire, the mountains. [ch. 27]

First in a trilogy, The Red Company, set in Victoria Goddard's increasingly complex Nine Worlds universe: chronologically, the events of Derring-Do for Beginners take place more or less at the same time as 'The Tower at the Edge of the World' (a shorter story, which I have read but not reviewed).

Jullanar Thistlethwaite is an unexceptional young woman of genteel family, who just about scrapes into university( Read more... )