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goodreadsTitle: The Will of the Empress
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 539
Date read: September 2006, October 2010
Summary: Powers in full flush after stints of wayfaring, precocious ambient mages Daja, Briar, and Tris have finally reunited with left-behind Sandry. But nothing is quite what it was, and the 16-year-olds begin to question their telepathic connection: "As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer." It will take a common foe to shake the cobwebs from this partnership. Pierce provides a formidable one in Namorn's charismatic empress, who does battle with silken weapons of courtly politics to compel the mages to live and serve in Sandry's native land. Subplots deepen characterizations in ways reflective of the teens'increasing maturity: Daja discovers she is a "woman who loves women"; Sandry must confront her high-born heritage and stave off forced marriage by means of an archaic bride-stealing custom. A few threads seem to dangle in ways that cloth-mage Sandry would scorn, but little will deter readers from reveling in the elemental magics, or from sympathizing with the prickly young adults'nostalgia for the easy companionships of childhood. (From Amazon.com)
Review: I didn't even know this book existed until![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizziey mentioned it to me! Thank you, sweetie! It's brilliant! After the repetitiveness of "The Circle Opens" it was great to read something different, and see that Tamora Pierce still has what it takes :-)
The Will of the Empress has been split into two when translated to Danish. A more detailed of the second half, The Wrath of the Empress can be found here (written in English).
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Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 539
Date read: September 2006, October 2010
Summary: Powers in full flush after stints of wayfaring, precocious ambient mages Daja, Briar, and Tris have finally reunited with left-behind Sandry. But nothing is quite what it was, and the 16-year-olds begin to question their telepathic connection: "As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer." It will take a common foe to shake the cobwebs from this partnership. Pierce provides a formidable one in Namorn's charismatic empress, who does battle with silken weapons of courtly politics to compel the mages to live and serve in Sandry's native land. Subplots deepen characterizations in ways reflective of the teens'increasing maturity: Daja discovers she is a "woman who loves women"; Sandry must confront her high-born heritage and stave off forced marriage by means of an archaic bride-stealing custom. A few threads seem to dangle in ways that cloth-mage Sandry would scorn, but little will deter readers from reveling in the elemental magics, or from sympathizing with the prickly young adults'nostalgia for the easy companionships of childhood. (From Amazon.com)
Review: I didn't even know this book existed until
lizziey mentioned it to me! Thank you, sweetie! It's brilliant! After the repetitiveness of "The Circle Opens" it was great to read something different, and see that Tamora Pierce still has what it takes :-)The Will of the Empress has been split into two when translated to Danish. A more detailed of the second half, The Wrath of the Empress can be found here (written in English).
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