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Once more, Goodreads is rejecting my book reviews or it is? I'm not sure. Just in case it, I'm posting my review here.
An epic tale of a conquered land; the enslaved, yet powerful elements of water, their age old battle with the elements of fire and the very human heirs to both whom act out that conflict. One of the chief voices in this novel are that of Pharinet Palindrake; twin, lover and beloved to the tragic Dragon Lord Valraven Palindrake, bound by and courted by the lords of fire as well as the rigid expectations of the feeble, diminished nobility of his native realm of water. The other is Variencienne, only daughter of the fire emperor and his cunning queen, given in marriage to Valraven, yet coming into her own power within her husband’s realm, bearing the wit, strength, and creative determination to heal the wounds fire and her own kin have left upon it. Rich in poetic prose with captures the imagination; bringing to life the strength, intelligence, and intuitive force of these two women whom offer up a detailed portrait of the people and places they interact with.
This is an amazing book, offering up a unique, living, breathing fantasy world to explore through its characters, a world similar enough to our own to feel very similar, yet possessing its own individuality and magic.
An epic tale of a conquered land; the enslaved, yet powerful elements of water, their age old battle with the elements of fire and the very human heirs to both whom act out that conflict. One of the chief voices in this novel are that of Pharinet Palindrake; twin, lover and beloved to the tragic Dragon Lord Valraven Palindrake, bound by and courted by the lords of fire as well as the rigid expectations of the feeble, diminished nobility of his native realm of water. The other is Variencienne, only daughter of the fire emperor and his cunning queen, given in marriage to Valraven, yet coming into her own power within her husband’s realm, bearing the wit, strength, and creative determination to heal the wounds fire and her own kin have left upon it. Rich in poetic prose with captures the imagination; bringing to life the strength, intelligence, and intuitive force of these two women whom offer up a detailed portrait of the people and places they interact with.
This is an amazing book, offering up a unique, living, breathing fantasy world to explore through its characters, a world similar enough to our own to feel very similar, yet possessing its own individuality and magic.
