This week I am reviewing The One Kingdom: Book One of the Swans’ War by Sean Russell which is not the next book I listed in my last review of On the Beach.It has been a year since my last review and I wanted to review it while it was fresh in my mind. I found The One Kingdom while I was packing up to move and it called out to me so I knew I had to read it immediately. Do books call out to you like that too? When I was much younger I used to go to the library and run my fingers along the books until one called out to me and then read that one and most of the time the book hit the spot I needed to itch immediately.

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I do not remember when I bought this book but it looks like it came out in 2001 and is now out of print. I am finding that a lot of books I bought around this time are now out of print or hard to find so I will link the Kindle version which is available with this link: The One Kingdom. You can probably find it and the other two books in the trilogy at the library or a used book store. I am not going to give these away since it looks like they may be hard to find elsewhere.

This book is a fantasy book set in another realm where there was a past war that current groups of people are still grappling with. Intrigue, succession, plotting and even cold blooded murder are afoot in this book as we follow three friends from a small hard to reach village as they travel down the river which twists and turns and takes them down paths both known and unknown. On their way they meet a mysterious stranger who changes their lives forever.

I will not say much more about the plot except that it is exceptionally well written and I loved reading it another time through. I had completely forgotten about these books as they were in boxes from my big move over a decade ago but I am definitely going to finish the series now that I have started it. They are so well written and the plot is unique from other fantasy books with a similar premise. I highly recommend them! If you want to know more about the author, Sean Russell I did find a link to their website that outlines some of their other works listed below.

Sean Russell Website

A little late, but our next book will be: Bringing up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

Resources:

The One Kingdom by Sean Russell

Book Review: On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Rereading Books Before I Give Them Away Part 1