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A dying village, once a city, besieged by troops and beset by a disease that dwindles their number every year. Ostracia and all its horrors cannot be allowed to return to the world.
A girl with powers she does not want. A father desperate to protect her. A love, lost. The last Outsider in Ostracia doesn't know she holds the fate of them all in her hands.
A fantasy novel both for those who read fantasy and those who do not. This is an apocalypse not of worlds and kingdoms, but of individual lives and those they touch.
A girl with powers she does not want. A father desperate to protect her. A love, lost. The last Outsider in Ostracia doesn't know she holds the fate of them all in her hands.
A fantasy novel both for those who read fantasy and those who do not. This is an apocalypse not of worlds and kingdoms, but of individual lives and those they touch.
417 pages, Paperback
First published November 20, 2011
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April 4, 2013
Firstly, I will say that I really enjoyed this story - which is always the most important aspect of a novel!
As a reader I do not often read `high' fantasy novels as I find that they over cook their prose. Withheld doesn't overload the reader with information, it gives you enough to get a sense of places and characters and (for me) was far more accessible as a fantasy novel than some. It is a smart, slow burning story that and allows the well crafted characters to shine that twists and turns leaving Assundra and the reader guessing who is friend and who foe is throughout...and I won't post any spoilers for those reading it!
As a reader I do not often read `high' fantasy novels as I find that they over cook their prose. Withheld doesn't overload the reader with information, it gives you enough to get a sense of places and characters and (for me) was far more accessible as a fantasy novel than some. It is a smart, slow burning story that and allows the well crafted characters to shine that twists and turns leaving Assundra and the reader guessing who is friend and who foe is throughout...and I won't post any spoilers for those reading it!
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