I logged onto Amazon and went to the science fiction section hoping against hope that I would find the next installment of The Song of Naga Teot. With a sigh, I noted only two books, both out of print. But then my eye fell on the words: "From the author..." I did a short but jubilant victory dance and sat down to read her words. I can't tell you how thankful I am to discover that not only is the author (and the character of Naga) alive and well, but also ready to finish the story!

Like other reviewers, I have read and re-read Blood Storm and Teot's War. I bought the first book the month it was released and waited in rabid anticipation for the second to come out - two long years. Now it's been a decade and I still never walk into a bookstore without first going past the scifi section and scanning the authors names that end with G... I've bought multiple copies in used book stores (because I couldn't find them elsewhere) and given them out as loaners. I will never willingly part with my own copies!

Drin and Naga are magnificently written characters who come alive on paper and live and breathe in the back of your mind long after you close the book.

I urge you to buy both these books and settle down for the best read of your life. Even if the final book never comes, it will have been well worth your time.

Ms Gladney, thank you for a wonderful and exciting read! Can't wait to see what happens to my two favorite characters in all of scifi.

Like all the previous reviews I laud the talent that is obviously inherent in Ms. Gladneys writings. I know we all axiously wait to read the next installment in the series and today i was visiting her homepage to see that she has not one but two new books slated for the Teot series. Now that is sometihng to make you skip a beat. I've read and reread her books at least 20 times, frequenting the bookstores to find the second novel when i finished the first. These books are full of every intrigue you could wish, military tactics, political intrigue, religion and the in-depth character make it so alive.I urge all of Ms Gladney's readers to show your support for these phenomenal pieces of work!

JUST AS THE OTHER AMAZON REVIEWERS, I ALSO PERIODICALLY REREAD THE TWO MILITARY FANTASY BOOKS BY HEATHER GLADNEY, TEOT'S WAR AND BLOOD STORM. HER FULLY REALISED UNIVERSE DESCRIBES, IN STUNNING FIRST PERSON NARRATIVE, A NATION WHICH IS UNDER ATTACK BY AN ENEMY WHOSE NUMBERS AND FANATIC THEOLOGY ARE IN DANGER OF WIPING OUT A MONARCHY WHOSE KING IS A RULER THAT IS FOUND ONLY "ONCE IN TEN THOUSAND YEARS." NAGA TEOT, WHOSE NAME MEANS "DANCES WITH KNIVES," IS A REMAINING NOBLE OF A MINORITY RACE, WHO WITH EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE AND A SUPERHUMAN GRASP OF MILITARY STRATEGY, MEETS UP AND SWEARS HIS FEALTY TO THE KING WHOM HE NICKNAMES "DRIN." THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS A FASCINATING STUDY OF A FRIENDSHIP THAT CAN BE BETWEEN TWO MEN, AND BETWEEN A RULER AND HIS KNIGHT. IN A WAY, I THINK THEIR RELATIONSHIP CAN ALSO BE AN ALLEGORY OF THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND HIS FOLLOWER. AT THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK, NAGA HAS STIRRED DRIN'S SLEEPY, SEA-SIDE NATION INTO A WAR WITH THE BEHEMOTH, FANATIC ENEMY. A CLASSIC LINE OF DIALOGUE IS WHEN NAGA, RESPONDING TO DRIN'S COMMENT THAT NAGA NOW HAS HIS WAR, SAYS ABSENTLY, "NO, LEIGE, I PRAYED FOR PEACE." I LOOK FORWARD WITH GREAT PLEASURE TO HEATHER GLADNEY'S THIRD BOOK IN THIS SERIES. HER WRITING DESERVES A LARGE AUDIENCE.

I greatly enjoyed the first book of this series. It has all the elements that make great escape reading - young protagonist overcoming great odds - but he's far more fully rounded than your standard Mercedes Lackey type - troubled by his past, emotionally stunted by hardship, and struggling as a member of a despised minority with whether or not to protect the leader of an arrogant majority. Second book was acceptable and left you hanging, waiting for the never-to-appear third. If she ever writes a 3rd I wil read it.

Writing in the first person is never easy, but Heather Gladney somehow accomplishes it with savvy and hard-edged grace. Naga's thought processes are as alien as his culture, and set the tone for an amazingly scripted plot of (as a previous reviewer already said) love, betrayal, and war. Naga's thoughts lend a wierd green light (as of looking though a glass darkly) to the setting during his desperate work to arm Tan. He seems to be the only one who sees clearly throughout the series. Drin tries to see beyond the political mechinations of counselors, but falls victim to a betrayal that only Naga can discern. Naga has many amazing abilities, but it is his flaws that create an utterly believable and powerful character. I'm excited that at long last the third book is upcoming (soon I hope)! I have read and reread the series since it was first published. My only thought to why the publisher didn't support Gladney long ago is that her dizzying writing style is many years before its time. Even now, her world is more real and more innovative than most worlds you find in fantasy today. Continue to write Gladney, you are a ray of hope in these pulp fantasy times.

My copies of the two Teots novels are ragged from rereading them every year. A reprint would be nice, the printing of new Teot novels by Heather would make my day. I can't belive that after the first two novels her publisher didn't sign her to a contract to finish the series. What a dunder head to have a author of her talent and not keep her busy for the last ten years. How many good novels have we missed while Heather was not putting to use her considerable skills to entertaining us with tales war and intrigue. What a waste of talent.