Firebird Trilogy
Kathy Tyers
Bethany, Oct, 2004, $14.99
ISBN: 0764229273

Firebird. Though a member of the Naetai royal family, Princess Firebird Angelo is a Wastling too low on the succession chain to matter; her life is expendable. She is trained to accept death as her highest calling. Her chance occurs when she is chosen to lead a suicide attack on the planet VeeRon. Instead, she does the unimaginable, dishonoring herself as she allows the enemy to capture her.

Fusion Fire. Princess Firebird and VeeRon Master Sentinel Brennan Caldwell have bonded and are expecting the birth of twin sons. However, her older sister Princess Phoena detests Firebird for choosing life when her destiny, like all Wastling, was death. Phoena will try anything to insure Firebird dies while the Shur will kill to prevent the Master Singer's prophesy that the Messiah is coming as a member of the Caldwell clan.

Crown of Fire. Phoena has managed to have Lady Firebird sentenced to death for treason and heresy while rebels are destroying cities on several worlds trying to eradicate the Caldwells and the Angelos. Her family asks Firebird to come home as a royal heiress to try to lure a deadly assassin out into the open even as Phoena plans to kill her dishonorable sibling.

The FIREBIRD TRILOGY consolidates three fabulous novels into one terrific package. The Judeo-Christian science fiction storyline turns readers into believing in the varying worlds and the specific mythos starting with the intriguing sacrificial customs that the Naetai have for the younger members of the family that seem like the flowing of blood to replenish the land. The VeeRon beliefs in the coming of the Messiah add to the insight into their values system. This is a fabulous trilogy.

Harriet Klausner