Kirstein KNOWS what is happening and doles out pieces of it as they become apparent to explorer-scientists. It feels like one of those videos where it's like 'this is the solar system, this is Earth, this is your country, this is your house.' all the way down to atoms.

Oh yes! Plural! You meet more! And it was good that we did, because I was beginning to feel that Rowan was an author stand-in, and then we met another and she was so different but also still the same, so I was able to accept that what we were seeing were flaws in our hero. The more I think, the more clever and also more frustrating I think it becomes.ĬONTENT WARNING: PTSD, depression, genocide, body horror ( no eyes that I can recall), spidery things, implied sexual assault The shocking answer will change the steerswoman-and her world-forever. When sleepy Alemeth transforms into a place of chaos, terror, and sudden death, Rowan wonders if all the secrets are connected. Now the bright, beloved companion of Rowan's student days has become a man dominated by dark moods and even darker secrets. But Janus quit the order without explanation. Then she encounters a lost friend: Janus, one of the few rare Steersmen. They may contain clues to Slado's location, but combing through them would take more time than Rowan has to spend. In the seaside town of Alemeth, the Annex holds centuries of steerswomen's journals. But how does one stop the most powerful man in the world? Both the Inner Lands and the Outkskirts are now threatened by his magic-and before the destruction becomes too great to reverse, Rowan must find Slado so that he can be stopped. The steerswoman Rowan has learned that Slado, a mysterious wizard, has secretly been working spells of incredible power. How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never heard described? And what if the consequences of not finding him are too terrible to imagine?

The Lost Steersman by Rosemary Kirstein