- Fiction, historical, Fiction, fantasy, general, Scientists, fiction, European fiction
As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse.
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Grave, plot-driven, epic and bleak.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jesse Bullington
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Orbit, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316087346
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