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Anya Rosenberg interviews the author A G Rivett

The story is a grounded one. The idea that the strongest warriors are not those who wield a sword, but who are willing to take great risks for justice and truth, dominates. Attention is devoted to the villagers’ spiritual, moral, and emotional decisions and habits. Their personal concerns feed into a fitting, bittersweet conclusion that is overlaid with a sense of fatedness.
A series-concluding, contemplative historical novel, The Shareg is about a man elevated to a leadership position who seeks to balance tradition, tolerance, and progress in his adopted community.
Eileen Gonzales for Foreword Clarion Review

The book explores how uniting civil and religious power inevitably leads to forms of tyranny, something we have seen too much of in our own world. This leads to a gripping confrontation involving not only Dhion, but the island’s chiefs, the sharegs, whose authority the Archpriest has attempted to overthrow. We follow the different characters in a number of intertwining sub-plots which resolve in a surprise ending that also seems inevitable, drawing full circle to the beginning of the first volume and setting the seal on the trilogy as a whole.
Notwithstanding the drama, a sense of peace inhabits this trilogy; a hope that providence will make things good in the long term, even for those who suffer and die.
Daniel Morphy OSB for Pluscarden Benedictines

The Shareg is a story in the best tradition of storytelling. It has pace, tension and a satisfying denouement, while never abandoning the steady heartbeat of the small community at its centre. Most importantly, the final novel succeeds in drawing together the strands of the trilogy while remaining faithful to the distinctive atmosphere that has made the world of Fincara so compelling.
Krystyna Kryewska