title: The Broken Crown (The Sun Sword, Book 1)
author:  Michelle West 
description: Praise for the Sun Sword series:<br /><br />The seer Jewel ATerafin is an engaging character.... The <b>climactic fireworks are spectacular</b>, and the revelations enticing. <i>Locus</i><br /><br />Michelle provides 687 pages of <b>non-stop excitement</b>, creating spellbinding reading.... Fantasy connoisseurs will have a field day with this mesmerizing work. <i>Romantic Times</i><br /><br />Wests writing is highly <b>embroidered and romantic</b>.... This series is for fantasy readers who relish enormous detail. <i>VOYA</i><br /><br /> This is a <b>complex weaving of tales</b> and plotting that holds your interest. Set some time aside for this one. <i>ConNotations</i><br /> <br /> The Sun Sword is the resolution, the climax, the braiding together of elements that finally brings everything to rest. West <b>pulls it off beautifully</b>. <i>Rambles Magazine</i><br /><br /><b>Fantasy action on a grand scale</b>. <i>Chronicle</i>
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  # The Broken Swords
  
  
  ### George MacDonald
  
  
  
  
  
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  The eyes of three, two sisters and a brother, gazed for the last time on a
  great pale-golden star, that followed the sun down the steep west. It went
  down to arise again; and the brother about to depart might return, but more
  than the usual doubt hung upon his future. For between the white dresses of
  the sisters, shone his scarlet coat and golden sword-knot, which he had put on
  for the first time, more to gratify their pride than his own vanity. The
  brightening moon, as if prophetic of a future memory, had already begun to dim
  the scarlet and the gold, and to give them a pale, ghostly hue. In her
  thoughtful light the whole group seemed more like a meeting in the land of
  shadows, than a parting in the substa