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 Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey
Newest Review: ... a monastery where he grew up happy and carefree, believing himself an ordinary child. Taken by passing slavers at the age of ... more  ... ten, he endured horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a dark prince and his minions, only escaping when the queen of Terre D'Ange charges Phèdre and Joscelin to find the missing prince of the Blood and to return him to the bosom of the family his parents betrayed.
As you might guess from the my use of the word saga earlier, this is an epic novel. A real doorstopper of a book, it is not something to just pick up lightly and try to read in snatches on a train. A real page turner, this re imagining of the Renaissance w...more |
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Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey: Love, Pain, Politics, and Sex (698 words)
by - written on 22/11/08 (Very useful, 81 readings)
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Set in the same alternative Renaissance time line as Carey's previous three Kushiel novels, this is the first of a trilogy focusing on Imriel nó Montrève de la Courcel. Whilst it is able to stand on its own by giving some needed background information within the story, told from Imriel's point of view, it is actually a continuation of the Kushiel saga featuring Imriel's now foster mother, the anguisette former courtesan Phèdre nó Delauney. It's a tale of a young boy's quest to discover who he really is as a human being and to find his true place in the world, when all he has known before was a lie. His parents were of the royal house in the land of Terre ... Read the complete review
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