Sorcerer's Legacy - by Janny Wurts (spoilers)

I would probably give this a 4-5 out of 10. The concept was good,and the characters were fairly decently drawn, especially as I believe this was Janny Wurt's first novel. A woman gets time swept to another land to become the wife of a Prince. He is infertile (thanks to a curse) and will be executed soon if he cant produce a child, she is very recently widowed, and very newly pregnant - so newly pregnant that it cant yet be detected. Of course there are those at court that don't want the Prince to claim the throne, and they use all sorts of nasty magic to prevent this. There's a pretty grim scene where after the baby is born, it's brutally killed by a young girl under the spell of the evil magician - she then suicides to break the curse on the Prince, and all is well that ends well. I found the magic system confusing, the time hopping in the beginning was also a bit odd and it took a while for me to get into the flow of the story. All in all, I don't feel that I reallly enjoyed the book, I certainly didn't wish for there to be another book in the series.

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