Product Description

Karigan has just run away from college after knocking down an aristocrat's son in response to his torments. Stumbling across a King's messenger - one of the famous Green Riders - dying in the road, she unwillingly takes up his message and finds herself embroiled in a web of deceit and sorcery.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390841 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
This fat fantasy is the author's first published novel. Although the typical back cover quotes from Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley overly praise it somewhat--"stunning", "terrific", "classic"--it's a good, highly readable debut. Kristen Britain tells her story at a headlong pace and with considerable charm. Young heroine Karigan hardly has time to regret being expelled from school (for duelling) before finding herself committed to the desperate errand of a murdered Green Rider. The Riders are an elite messenger corps using both horses and magic; the message is a terrible warning. Bad things from bad places are invading this fantasyland, their presence being only part of a devious, sorcery-aided human struggle for the throne. Karigan's wild ride is beset with a variety of enemies but aided by her own developing talents plus certain strange allies; these include the tormented ghost of the dead Green Rider himself--still pierced by and trying to resist the chief villain's black arrows that ensnare the soul. Delivering the message to a suspicious court is only half Karigan's job: can it be interpreted in time? The pages turn fast, the heroine is likeable and the villains hissable, and all ends as it should. --David Langford

Customer Reviews

Green Supreme!
A Dark Horse to watch out for. Britain is a fabulous writer who has unearthed the heart of a fantastic and truly moving story. Green Rider and First Rider's Call are both superb and only suffer from the fact that their existence is not widely advertised on the general market.

Despite the constant critical claim that their exists only seven original stories, a person only has to look at the stacks of books in a library to establish the mastery of artists.

Kirsten Britain's world is fraught with perils, loss and companionship through any fire. Many would read the synopsis and claim to have "heard it all before". But I assure you, pick up this book and find yourself engrossed from word to word in this fabulous fantasy.

Amazing book
I picked this book up as a shot in the dark really - and couldn'd put it down! The style of writing is easy to read and keeps you hooked to the story line. A real stay-up-to-two-am-to-finish kinda book. My advice = buy it! I'm half way through the second book at the mo, and its every bit as good too! If you like pony-express meets magic and fantasy - this is the book for you.

Good fun read but very predictable
I enjoy reading this book but the plots and characters seems to have been lifted straight out of other fantasy books. While not original it was quite easy to read and enjoy. My main problem with the book is that by the end the reader realises that there is too many hints in the story that strongly suggested a sequel. There was just too many things left unresolved.