Green Pearl, The-Jack Vance novel, book review
Green Pearl, The-Jack Vance novel AKA: Lyonesse 2 The Green Pearl was first published in 1985 as a hardcover fantasy novel. It is currently in print as a trade paperback from Spatterlight Press. My out of print hardcover copy has 408 pages of text. The Green Pearl is the second book in the Lyonesse trilogy, and I highly recommend all three books. Although I rated all three novels a 5, I found each one to be even more engaging than its predecessor. They are highly creative fantasy novels that I found totally captivating. The setting continues to be on the Elder Isles, a string of islands that run from near northern France extending up toward southern Ireland. The Elder Isles are currently divided into ten kingdoms that either cooperate or compete with other Elder Isles kingdoms for survival or control. The time depicted is the “Dark Ages.” The powerful and ambitious King Casmir, the current ruler of Lyonesse, wants to conque...