Sing the Four Quarters: A Quarters Novel

By Tanya Huff

Book Overview

The Bards of Shkoder hold the country together. They, and the elemental spirits they Sing - earth, air, fire, and water - bring the news of the sea to the mountains, news of the mountains to the plains. They give their people, from peasant to king, a song in common.Annice is a rare talent, able to Sing all four quarters, but her brother, the newly enthroned King Theron, sees her request to study at the Bardic Hall as a betrayal. To his surprise, Annice accepts his conditions, renouncing her royal blood and swearing to remain childless so as not to jeopardize the line of succession. She walks away from political responsibilities, royal privilege and her family.Ten years later, Annice has become the Princess Bard and her real life is about to become the exact opposite of the overwrought ballad her fellow students at the Bardic Hall wrote about her. Now, she's on the run from the Royal Guards with the Duc of Ohrid, the father of her unborn child, both of them guilty of treason - one of them unjustly accused. To save the Duc's life, they'll have to cross the country, manage to keep from strangling each other, and defeat an enemy too damaged for even a Bard's song to reach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625671547
• ISBN13: 9781625671547
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

You won't be able to put it down.....

Sing the Four Quarters was a very original book, that I greatly enjoyed. Annice, a former princess, has the gift to summon the spirits of the elements earth, water, fire, and air...so she becomes a bard. Now Annice flees from two counts of treason to avoid being executed by the king...her brother. Once you pick it up and start reading you will not beable to put it down untill you finish it! I also suggest it's sequal The Fifth Quarter..it introduces totally new characters and is almost as good as Sing the Four Quarters.

A total page turner

I fell in love with this book before I even finshed the first page! I found it while dragging my tired friend through the book store at 9pm, I was making her read all the back of books that looked intresting (I was too busy looking for other books to bother reading it myself) and when she read Sing the Fourth Quarter, to be honest didn't sound very good to me, but my friend thought it sounded great (she probly just wanted me to find a book and leave) anyways- I found Tanya Huff to be an exellent writer who was very good with plot and true to her characters. I couldn't put it down! I'm now investigating other Tanya Huff books hopeing they're just as wonderful!

One of my most favorite book/series

Sing the Four Quarter pulled me in and wouldn't let me go. This book and the ones to follow were hard to put down. I spent many a night awake reading to late. The emotion she places into each character is amazing; I've found many a tear in my eye. I've read all the "Quarter" books, and hope that there are more to follow.

A brilliant star in the sky of dreams

It is perhaps rare and not convenient to give a 10 out of 10, but this book was the first fantasy novel for years that evoked a state of mind in me, that I cannot describe. It is as if you break through the mists and reach for the golden Isle of Avalon. There is virtually bardic music in this story out of another dimension. SO to cut a long story short the world in which Annice strikes for freedom is a class of its own. And even better the characters grow with the outline of the story. Unfortunately The Fifth Quarter, the sequel, is not nearly as good as Sing the Four Quarters, but in both book Tanya Huff holds the tension and the story is never really predictable. There is always the missing link and first at the end the holistic image grows together. Brilliant....

An unforgetable tale of friendship, love and loyalty

I read this book in one sitting. I just simply could not put it down. A magical adventure with its fair share of danger, unexpected twists and humor. One of the original novel ever written, let alone thought of. Convincing plot and characters. Tanya Huff, I must say, is in a class of her own