{"product_id":"2940000805152","title":"When Women Were Warriors Book I: The Warrior's Path","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for fiction in the Mainstream category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Breathtakingly gorgeous writing … a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience…\"\u003cbr\u003e--from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"…reminds me of Le Guin, of Cecelia Holland, and something of Rosemary Sutcliff… It made me feel as I did when I was a child reading authors like those… Once again I was in a magical place…\"\u003cbr\u003e--from a review by Charles Ferguson on Amazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"…there’s no ring of power or glowing sword of specialness; the magic, like the tone of the book, is quiet. It feels real.\"\u003cbr\u003e--from a blog review on livejournal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she was a child, the author of When Women Were Warriors happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began, \"Once upon a time, a young man went out to seek his fortune.\" But she would have been delighted to discover even one story like that with a female protagonist. Since she never did find the story she was looking for all those years ago, she decided to write it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Book I of the trilogy, Tamras arrives in Merin’s house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin’s house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"…Both men and women of all persuasions seem to love these books... Very rare. Bravo, Bravo, Bravo!\"\u003cbr\u003e--from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Think Beowulf--only comprehensible and with girls.\"\u003cbr\u003e--from a review on the blog, The Rainbow Reader, by Baxter Clare Trautman, author of The River Within\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catherine Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067053785328,"sku":"2940000805152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940000805152_p0.jpg?v=1763900734","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940000805152","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}