Terisa

Scott had a hard time the first time he heard Larry called Terisa "sweetie" nine years ago.

Only You. And You. And You. 2009

Comprehending just those two levels of problem is made far worse by the people's insistence that Terisa will save them, such that I don't understand what feels to me to be another, unnecessary layer—Terisa's debilitating emotional state.

Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010

Clearly, except for Terisa who seems just overwhelmed by the charisma-power like character of this man, he is a foe you want near you soliloquizing rather than off on his own making hideous plans.

Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010

Clearly, except for Terisa who seems just overwhelmed by the charisma-power like character of this man, he is a foe you want near you soliloquizing rather than off on his own making hideous plans.

A Man Rides Through Fred Perry 2010

The world that Terisa finds herself in is skillfully crafted, and I admire the thought and work that went into it, especially the genre-bending idea that the king knows he is being attacked but that his best course of action is to do nothing.

Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010

I think Donaldson is solid in his representation of what moving from a world of modern technology to medieval magic would do to an average person, especially in the situation that Terisa finds herself in—a king who is apparently mad and his country under attack from two known enemies and one unknown, and people scurrying to try to save themselves and their land.

Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010

But while my theoretical philosophical state was just a game, for Terisa, it is a lifestyle, an ethos that paralyzes her in the most inopportune moments.

Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010

Only this time, around, Terisa Morgan is not quite so thoroughly developed and her flaw is emotionally based rather than physical, and thus that much harder to accept in its complexity: a victim of emotional abuse throughout her childhood, Terisa is not convinced she actually exists.

Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010

Some of the possibilities of this magic are revealed in the first book, but it is in the second, as Terisa comes into her own and is more or less adopted by the world's practitioners of imagery, that we see its full potential.

A Man Rides Through Fred Perry 2010

Some of the possibilities of this magic are revealed in the first book, but it is in the second, as Terisa comes into her own and is more or less adopted by the world's practitioners of imagery, that we see its full potential.

Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010