In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant

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The success of Assassin's Price for a given reader lies entirely with how much the reader appreciates Modesitt's house style of slow burn, slow burn, slow burn, big reveal and action. Charyn is a new viewpoint character (the previous two books have featured Alaster, an incredibly powerful magic user) and while knowledge of the events of Madness in Solidar and Treachery's Tools might help for a richer background, Modesitt gives more than enough to fill in the blanks. Series and the third in a subseries, it might actually be a reasonable place for a reader to pick up the series.

Meanwhile, threats and attacks against Rex Lorien's family have begun and the political situation have worsened.įor all that Assassin's Price is the eleventh novel in Modesitt's Imager Portfolio Charyn, son of the Rex Lorien and tired of waiting for his father to give him responsibilities of a proper political education to prepare him for future rule, has taken it upon himself to get that education. Assassin's Price įew of Modesitt's fantasy novels feature a non-magic-using protagonist, but this is one. Seanan McGuire goes big with Middlegame and she hits the mark. It is that grounding that allows the rest of the novel's structure to work, the hints that there is more to the story than we're even seeing through the different viewpoint characters. The novel is grounded in what seems like an almost normal reality of Roger and Dodger, the two incredible intelligent and gifted twins mentioned previously. Middlegame is a novel about separated twins struggling to come together and the people that are keeping them apart in order to better build them into something that can open a road to an Impossible City that will grant unbelievable power. Seanan McGuire has blended together as much as she possibly could stuff into one novel and she makes the whole thing work. Twins, math, alchemy, murder, time-bending, family, secret organizations, impossible powers, and just about everything McGuire can throw into this wonderous novel. Middlegame is perhaps the most ambitious novels from Seanan McGuire and is a showcase for her skill at telling a good and complex story.

In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant