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This fantasy is the second entry in the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, concerning a country whose culture borrows elements from World War I-era England and France, except that in Ile-Rien, sorcery exists and works hand-in-hand with science. At the end of the previous volume, Ile-Rien was about to be entirely overrun by the Gardier, a mysterious invading force wielding magic unfamiliar to the Rienish. Tremaine Valiarde, a playwright with underworld connections, joined a military expeditionary force and a group of refugees on the Ravenna, an ocean liner converted into a warship. The Ravenna is journeying through a parallel world in search of both safe haven and the Gardier's home base. Tremaine's shipboard task is to mediate between the Rienish, who think Tremaine is mentally unstable; and their potential allies, the Syprians, a somewhat more primitive people from this newly discovered world, who distrust and fear magic of all kinds, including the Rienish variety. Meanwhile, there appears to be a sorcerous saboteur aboard the ship.
| Details | | Series: | Wells, Martha. Fall of the Ile-Rien, Books 2. |
| Size | | Length: | 408 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 25.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...[E]xciting and involving...stay tuned."
Kirkus (04/15/2004)
"...[W]ell written, exciting."
Science Fiction Chronicle - Don D'Ammassa (06/01/2004)
"...[R]ousing fun....A vastly entertaining and refreshingly different fantasy adventure with a surprisingly satisfying conclusion for the middle book of so complex a series."
Locus - Carolyn Cushman (07/01/2004)
"...Tremaine Valiarde emerges as one of the fantasy genre's more distinctive heroines--intelligent, wry, bitingly funny and impossible not to like."
Publishers Weekly (06/28/2004)
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