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When her hometown is overtaken by a crime syndicate, the daughter of a disgraced Harper agent fights to free the local merchants from their underground overlordsWhen Alias crosses swords with the underlings of the cunning, heartless lord of Westgate's criminal guild—known only as the Faceless—he vows to destroy her.
Accepting the challenge to rid Westgate of the maleficent Night Masks, Alias gathers old allies and new: the saurial paladin Dragonbait, the halfling Olive Ruskettle, the show more street performer Jamal, the sage Mintassan, and the charismatic Victor Dhostar, son of Westgate's governing official.
Yet even as Alias thwarts the nefarious efforts of the Night Masks, she becomes ever more entangled in the web woven by The Faceless—a web whose silken threads are spun from intrigue, political machinations, and murder.
Masquerades is the tenth book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers.. show less
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I have been a big fan of the books that Novak and Grubb have written about these characters, but this one doesn't quite work for me. I'm not entirely sure what my problem is, although I did find the plot very predictable in such a way that the characters seem a little slow for not catching on quicker. Otherwise it just seems to be missing some of the magic that made the earlier books work.
Read this one a long time ago, of all of the Novak and Grubb collaborations, this is my least favorite.
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- Canonical title
- Masquerades
- Original publication date
- 1995-07
- People/Characters
- Alias; Dragonbait; Olive Ruskettle; The Faceless; Mistinarperadnacles; Luer Dhostar (show all 8); Durgar the Just; Mintassan
- Important places
- Westgate, Faerûn; Faerûn
- Dedication
- To Judith Weddell - science fiction teacher extraordinaire.
- First words
- Alias warched the young couple seated at the edge of the plaza fountain.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The sage grinned and leaned toward the swordswoman, and they began the dance again.
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- English, French, Polish
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