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Books of the Gordath
Red Gold Bridge
In the heart of the gordath, danger is waiting...
A year ago, Lynn Romano and Kate Mossland stumbled through the gordath, a portal between our world and the war-torn society called Aeritan. Now, a powerful Aeritan general has crossed through to Earth, and his obsession with Kate could tear both worlds apart.
A year ago, Lynn Romano and Kate Mossland stumbled through the gordath, a portal between our world and the war-torn society called Aeritan. Now, a powerful Aeritan general has crossed through to Earth, and his obsession with Kate could tear both worlds apart.
- GenresFantasyUrban Fantasy
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 11, 2009
About the author
Patrice Sarath
20 books52 followersPatrice Sarath is an author and editor living in Austin, Texas. Her novels include the fantasy books The Sisters Mederos (Book I of the Tales of Port Saint Frey), the series Books of the Gordath (Gordath Wood, Red Gold Bridge, and The Crow God's Girl) and the romance The Unexpected Miss Bennet.
Patrice is the author of numerous short stories that have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Weird Tales, Black Gate, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, and many others. Her short story "A Prayer for Captain La Hire" was included in Year's Best Fantasy of 2003 compiled by David Hartwell and Katherine Cramer. Her story "Pigs and Feaches," originally published in Apex Digest, was reprinted in 2013 in Best Tales of the Apocalypse by Permuted Press.
Patrice is an avid horsewoman. She also enjoys bike-riding, rollerblading, and hiking the woods and trails outside Austin. She can often be found writing at her neighborhood coffee house.
Books:
The Sisters Mederos (2018, Angry Robot Books)
Fog Season (2019, Angry Robot Books)
The Crow God's Girl (2012)
The Unexpected Miss Bennet (2011, Robert Hale and Penguin)
Red Gold Bridge (2009, Penguin Berkley)
Gordath Wood (2008, Penguin Berkley)
Short stories:
A Prayer for Captain La Hire (2002, Black Gate, 2003 Year's Best Fantasy)
Bad Amy (2006, Space Squid)
Bad Dog (2015, Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine; 2017 Deep Magic)
Blood on the Snow (1999, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; 2017 Bloodbound)
Ice (2005, Realms of Fantasy)
Into the Dark (2002, Realms of Fantasy)
Lonely Cries the Winter Wind (2008, Edge of Propinquity)
Memories of Gravity (2013, The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance)
More to Glory (2002, Low-Port anthology)
Murder on the Hohmann (2016, Futuristica Vol I)
Pigs and Feaches (2007, Apex Digest, 2013 Best Tales of the Apocalypse)
Pilot's Forge (2009, Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance)
Reparations (2000, Romance & Beyond)
The Djinn Game (1999, Such a Pretty Face)
The Gig in the Hall of Kings (2004, Cafe Ole anthology)
The Lunch Thief (2007, Weird Tales, published as Bagged Lunch)
The Night of Their Conversion (2007, Space Squid)
The Warlord and the Princess (1999, Beyond the Rose, 2002 Andromeda Spaceways)
Patrice is the author of numerous short stories that have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Weird Tales, Black Gate, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, and many others. Her short story "A Prayer for Captain La Hire" was included in Year's Best Fantasy of 2003 compiled by David Hartwell and Katherine Cramer. Her story "Pigs and Feaches," originally published in Apex Digest, was reprinted in 2013 in Best Tales of the Apocalypse by Permuted Press.
Patrice is an avid horsewoman. She also enjoys bike-riding, rollerblading, and hiking the woods and trails outside Austin. She can often be found writing at her neighborhood coffee house.
Books:
The Sisters Mederos (2018, Angry Robot Books)
Fog Season (2019, Angry Robot Books)
The Crow God's Girl (2012)
The Unexpected Miss Bennet (2011, Robert Hale and Penguin)
Red Gold Bridge (2009, Penguin Berkley)
Gordath Wood (2008, Penguin Berkley)
Short stories:
A Prayer for Captain La Hire (2002, Black Gate, 2003 Year's Best Fantasy)
Bad Amy (2006, Space Squid)
Bad Dog (2015, Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine; 2017 Deep Magic)
Blood on the Snow (1999, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; 2017 Bloodbound)
Ice (2005, Realms of Fantasy)
Into the Dark (2002, Realms of Fantasy)
Lonely Cries the Winter Wind (2008, Edge of Propinquity)
Memories of Gravity (2013, The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance)
More to Glory (2002, Low-Port anthology)
Murder on the Hohmann (2016, Futuristica Vol I)
Pigs and Feaches (2007, Apex Digest, 2013 Best Tales of the Apocalypse)
Pilot's Forge (2009, Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance)
Reparations (2000, Romance & Beyond)
The Djinn Game (1999, Such a Pretty Face)
The Gig in the Hall of Kings (2004, Cafe Ole anthology)
The Lunch Thief (2007, Weird Tales, published as Bagged Lunch)
The Night of Their Conversion (2007, Space Squid)
The Warlord and the Princess (1999, Beyond the Rose, 2002 Andromeda Spaceways)
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July 11, 2009
This book actually gets a 4.67 from me. It was nearly perfect, yes, I said that.
It had the right mix of intrigue, thrills (not the cheap kind), suspense and wonder. The second book also got the POV's right, weaving them all together almost seamlessly and allowing every character to develop yet go further with the plot culminating back to the beginning to Joe. Joe started this book off and he ended the book, much like Lynne started the last book off.
I was afraid I was going to be left with the same feeling I had toward the romance of Aerin and Tor and the magic guy from "The Hero and The Crown" - but I wasn't. It was a good ending told realistically enough with Lynne, Joe and Crae and gave them enough of a good ending to believe anything else that followed.
Crae really grew on me in this book and I kept hoping for him to succeed and to be comfortable in his own skin as well as in his own lot. I didn't see him as an interloper between Joe and Lynne like the last book and I really felt he was coming into his own.
We learned more about Joe in this book. Between his own narration and the stories that his mother told, I got a better idea of just who Joe was and why he was so special.
Lynne took a bit of a backseat in this one and was more or less coming to terms with her own emotions and actions that occurred in the last book. Her choices have an effect on both men.
Kate Mossland is the object of a crazy man's affections and she grows up further in this book. She has an idea of what she wants to do and who she wants to be but it takes her a little while to get there. Her sacrifice is enormous and you can feel her loss, blunted only a little by the presence of Colar, and get a sense that maybe this sequel could lead to a third book.
It had the right mix of intrigue, thrills (not the cheap kind), suspense and wonder. The second book also got the POV's right, weaving them all together almost seamlessly and allowing every character to develop yet go further with the plot culminating back to the beginning to Joe. Joe started this book off and he ended the book, much like Lynne started the last book off.
I was afraid I was going to be left with the same feeling I had toward the romance of Aerin and Tor and the magic guy from "The Hero and The Crown" - but I wasn't. It was a good ending told realistically enough with Lynne, Joe and Crae and gave them enough of a good ending to believe anything else that followed.
Crae really grew on me in this book and I kept hoping for him to succeed and to be comfortable in his own skin as well as in his own lot. I didn't see him as an interloper between Joe and Lynne like the last book and I really felt he was coming into his own.
We learned more about Joe in this book. Between his own narration and the stories that his mother told, I got a better idea of just who Joe was and why he was so special.
Lynne took a bit of a backseat in this one and was more or less coming to terms with her own emotions and actions that occurred in the last book. Her choices have an effect on both men.
Kate Mossland is the object of a crazy man's affections and she grows up further in this book. She has an idea of what she wants to do and who she wants to be but it takes her a little while to get there. Her sacrifice is enormous and you can feel her loss, blunted only a little by the presence of Colar, and get a sense that maybe this sequel could lead to a third book.
October 29, 2019
More of Book 2's action is in Aeritan but that's OK. This series is evenly divided between main characters in both Aeritan (the feudal world) and our world (New York state).
Besides, I enjoyed seeing more of Aeritan, beyond the area where the action of Book 1 was set.
Plus, Crae is a protagonist in his own right and I was happy to see him again.
Highly recommended for fantasy readers who like to see what happens when a modern person falls into a feudal world (and vice versa) and, of course, I very much enjoyed the love stories!
Besides, I enjoyed seeing more of Aeritan, beyond the area where the action of Book 1 was set.
Plus, Crae is a protagonist in his own right and I was happy to see him again.
Highly recommended for fantasy readers who like to see what happens when a modern person falls into a feudal world (and vice versa) and, of course, I very much enjoyed the love stories!
April 15, 2021
With the details of the first book GORDATH WOOD as background, RED GOLD BRIDGE leaps from the gate on page one and keeps the pace going. An excellent book!
January 4, 2010
This was one of those that I picked up because I couldn't find anything other than vampires and werewolves, which I am tired of, and the blurb caught me and the dh impatient, so I grabbed. I didn't realise until later that it was a second novel. I did realise very shortly because of all the backstory, which very nearly made me put it down. But I'd paid for it so I persisted.
I hadn't read the first story - Gordath Wood - so in many ways needed that backstory, but, for me, it wasn't very skilfully woven in. That said, I am glad I persisted. Once all that was read past, the novel picks up pace. The author has a nice easy-to-read and clear voice. I was a little irritated with the almost lecturing on what to do with a horse. While it was accurate I'm not sure most readers truly care about that. The idea of the novel, however, was a fun one, although the Gordath itself was never fully explained in book 2 and it's obvious there is going to be a book 3. Sometimes the Gordath seemed to open at very convenient times to further the plot and I think if I'd known more about it in this novel I would have found that more credible.
All that said, I'd like to see more from this author. I liked her voice and there were many good things within the novel.
I hadn't read the first story - Gordath Wood - so in many ways needed that backstory, but, for me, it wasn't very skilfully woven in. That said, I am glad I persisted. Once all that was read past, the novel picks up pace. The author has a nice easy-to-read and clear voice. I was a little irritated with the almost lecturing on what to do with a horse. While it was accurate I'm not sure most readers truly care about that. The idea of the novel, however, was a fun one, although the Gordath itself was never fully explained in book 2 and it's obvious there is going to be a book 3. Sometimes the Gordath seemed to open at very convenient times to further the plot and I think if I'd known more about it in this novel I would have found that more credible.
All that said, I'd like to see more from this author. I liked her voice and there were many good things within the novel.
August 9, 2009
In an excellent sequel to Gordath Woods, Patrice Sarath gives us a totally new yet here are all the folks back again story! Kate Mossland is riding home with her mom when she spies someone on the edge of the woods - General Marthen. Marthen held Kate captive and was obsessed with her until Kate and Lynn Romano magaed to get back thru the Wooda to our time. Cole (aka Colar Terrick son of Lord Terrick) came through with the for medical attention but wants to go home to his land and time. Meanwhile, the Gordath is causing the ground to shake in both lands and Joe, Lynn's lover who is also a Guardian and can control the Gordath is hard pressed to keep it calm.
With the General threatening all on our time and a hard-bitten criminal threatening the vwery existence of Aritian on Medieval time this book is a must-read of you read the first one. I hope there will be a third, I have a hunch this series will carry on for quite sometime.
With the General threatening all on our time and a hard-bitten criminal threatening the vwery existence of Aritian on Medieval time this book is a must-read of you read the first one. I hope there will be a third, I have a hunch this series will carry on for quite sometime.
May 23, 2010
Goes along nicely with it's predecessor Gordath Wood. It ties up some loose ends. I'd recommend both books to anyone who likes some romance with their fantasy.
October 21, 2014
Really good story. I like the way the loose ends are left - especially Lynn loving Crae, but still loving Joe just as much and not really choosing between the two. And I totally want to own a farm just like Red Bird Stables! Now I have to get the next book so I can find out what happens to Kate.
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