By the Sword (Valdemar (Publication order) #9) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 492 pages

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Original Title:	By the Sword
ISBN:	0886774632 (ISBN13: 9780886774639)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Valdemar (Publication order) #9, Valdemar (Chronological) #30
Characters:	Talia Sensdaughter, Queen Selenay of Valdemar, Kerowyn, Herald Dirk, Tarma, Kethry, Eldan, Need, Warrl, Dierna, Lordan, Daren, Quenten, Ancar, King Faram, Princess Elspeth of Valdemar

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Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother’s untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments—training horses and hunting. But all Kerowyn’s hopes and plans were shattered when her ancestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and his fiancée kidnapped. Drive by desperation and the knowledge that a sorcerer had led the attack, Kerowyn sought her grandmother Kethry’s aid, a journey which would prove but the first step on the road to the fulfillment of her destiny. For facing her family’s foes would transform Kerowyn into an outsider in her own land, a warrior bound to the spell blade Need, and a mercenary forced to choose between loyalty to her comrades in arms and the Herald of Valdemar, whom she had rescued and who in his turn had helped to awaken her to the true meaning of love and to her own unique powers of magic.

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Title	:	By the Sword (Valdemar (Publication order) #9)
Author	:	Mercedes Lackey
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 492 pages
Published	:	February 5th 1991 by DAW (first published February 1991)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Ratings: 4.25 From 19374 Users | 278 Reviews

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This is one of my favorite books written by Mercedes Lackey. The main character is a wonderful, free spirited, strong willed young girl who is thrown into greatness by unfortunate circumstances and finds her calling in life.This is one of the books by Mrs. Lackey that I can read over and over again.

I loved the Heralds of Valdemar in middle school. I read everything by Mercedes Lackey I could get my hands on, which was a considerable lot.Eventually I "outgrew" them, sort of. I had reread the old ones so much and the new ones didn't have the same allure. It was time for new favorites.Still, eventually nostalgia called, and I looked up my old friends to find you really can't go "home" again. Books that had made me alternately joyous and heartbroken were distressingly flat and transparently

Kind of Tarma and Keth ride again, for fans of those series. More accurately, Tarma and Keth: The Next Generation. Kerowyn, is the daughter of Keth, one of the two main characters in the "Vows and Honor" trilogy. Her mother was the odd one out in the family, uninterested in weapons or magic, and left as soon as she was able to have a more conventional life. She died when Kerowyn was young, and she grows up in her father's house, feeling out of place, unaware of her heritage or birthright.Her

I started reading Lackey with Children of the Night and the Diana Tregarde books, but this was the first Valdemar book I ever read.I liked it so much I next hunted down the Tarma & Kethry novels, then the short stories (was thrilled when Oathblood collected their short stories!) then continued on to the actual Valdemar books.Kero is my fav character from these books.RE-read 12/7/2003re-read 10/7/2014

One of my favorite YA books of all time, and my absolute favorite in the Valdemar series. Kero is such a fantastic character, and her development throughout the novel is rich, well paced, and exciting. I've read this book at least a dozen times, both as an adult and adolescent, and I still had a hard time putting the book down reading it again! Everything is just so on point in this book! One of my all-time favorites :-)

Quite a satisfying story in the fantasy adventure category. Not a quest, but training, life, and adventure as a female mercenarya really good one.It's official: I'm hooked on Valdemar.

http://bookslifewine.com/r-by-the-sword/4.5 stars rounded down to 4 stars!*Please Note: By the Sword is a stand alone book that can be read out of the Valdemar Universe publication order. By the Sword IS #9 in the Valdemar universe, however, so there is a great deal of history and definitions that are from previous works in series universe. How do you analyze old friends? Honestly, I think it's impossible. I first met Mercedes Lackey while browsing the stacks at the public library in my home