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Title: Kejserindens vredeAuthor: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 9/10
# pages: 227
Date read: September, 2008
Review: The Wrath of the Empress is the second part of the Danish translation of The Will of the Empress. Here we meet Sandrilene, Trisana, Daja and Briar immediately after the four of them joined forces and helped Sandry escape her would-be kidnappers. She now thinks herself more secure, as she doesn't expect anybody else will be stupid enough to test the abilities of her and her friends, now that they've seen what consequences it might have.
However, Sandry underestimates Empress Berenene's desire to keep four so powerful magicians in her realm, as well as her subjects loyality and almost limitless ambitions to rise in her esteem. An over-eager suitor tries once again to kidnap Sandry and keep her captive until she signs the marriage vows... this time using more drastic methods and therefore causing a more dire effect.
The Will of the Empress is the third series about the magicians Sandry, Briar, Tris and Daja - the two first being "Circle of Magic" and "The Circle Opens". In The Will of the Empress Tamora Pierce once again shows why she has become one of the leading fantasy authors of our time. Like few others she understands how to create a universe and make it both consistent through all her books, as well as so seductive that any reader feels like moving there. The two previous series are aimed at a younger audience, but Tris, Briar, Sandry and Daja are now both older and more experienced after their travels abroad, and the problems they face in The Will of the Empress are therefore of a more mature sort, with issues such as intrigues, love, marriage and sexuality being discussed.
I am still an Alanna-fan at heart, and "The Song of the Lioness" is my favourite series among the works of Tamora Pierce, but because The Will of the Empress is aimed at an older audience than most of her other books, I find it easier to relate to the characters and the situations they find themselves in, and it is therefore a definite number two.
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