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Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 571
Release Date: May 10th, 2016
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Audience: Adult
Summary from Goodreads:
From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request—and possibly to do more—and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor’s wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy.
The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family, ambivalent about the life he’s been born to live. And farther east a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif—to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming.
As these lives entwine, their fates—and those of many others—will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends out his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world...
Review: There is nothing like a good fantasy novel to start your day. I enjoyed diving into Guy Gavriel Kay's world of wonder. The characters were fantastic and full of depth and the story was one that dipped and swayed with every new development. I can't wait to dive more into this world.
Received an
advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review.
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