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The second book of the dazzling Silken Magic series, set in the mythical kingdom of Tyrrhia, where courtly politics, magic, and the silk trade intersect. Romani magic had gifted the princess Alessandra with the blessing of the Fairy folk. So when death claimed her at the White King's Court in Tyrrhia, not only her own clan and the man she loved, Maggiore Mandero di Montago, but the Fairy folk, too, cried out for justice and revenge. For Alessandra's corpse had been stolen--bound by spells to entrap her soul--so her energy could be used to work dark magic. If her body wasn't found and her soul wasn't set free within a year, she would be transformed into a creature of evil, the goodness within her completely consumed. Alessa is held by a master of the dark arts, a man who has a high position in the Church and who might yet call upon powerful allies for support. And even with the magic of the Rom and the Fairy folk to aid him, Mandero would be in terrible jeopardy as he sought to find and free Alessa from her earthly prison. Yet he must try at all costs, for the stakes are far higher than the loss of one soul, no matter how beloved. If the enemy's plans cannot be overturned, all Tyrrhia might be plunged into a religious war that could see an end to the last stronghold of peace, tolerance, and true magic.... No library descriptions found. |
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Another complaint is the large amount of typographical errors: both books had them, but there were more in this book that made for more difficult reading. The grammar and sentence structure were cleaned up more, though, so that was a plus.
I have to confess that in spite of these things, I'm thrilled for the conclusion of the series, not as much to have it end as to finally have a definitive answer for the Rom characters. The trilogy, presumably, is going to take place over the span of somewhere around a year; by the end of this book, there are six months left, which seems to be about the correct amount of time for the resolution of everything that has gone wrong for the characters, or at least the amount of loose ends that need to be tied up.
Something that I'm coming to appreciate more and more is that the characters are easy to relate to: in writing, a compelling plot is one thing, but relate-able characters are another thing altogether and add so much emotional impact to the story. Gilligan manages her characters well, so that though the plot is a common one used particularly in court intrigue fantasy [the story of revenge], the characters are appealing enough to encourage the reader to completely escape in the story. ( )