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National bestselling and award-winning author Sharon Shinn weaves a new world wrought with magic and mayhemGillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Sharon Shinn
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Ace
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781440603983
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