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by Karin Lowachee (Author)

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At the edge of the known world, an ancient nomadic tribe faces a new enemy-an Empire fueled by technology and war.

A young spiritwalker of the Aniw and a captain in the Ciracusan army find themselves unexpectedly thrown together. The Aniw girl, taken prisoner from her people, must teach the reluctant soldier a forbidden talent - one that may turn the tide of the war and will surely forever brand him an outcast.

From the rippling curtains of light in an Arctic sky, to the gaslit cobbled streets of the city, war is coming to the frozen north. Two people have a choice that will decide the fates of nations - and may cast them into a darkness that threatens to bring destruction to both their peoples.

Length: 360 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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About the Author

Karin Lowachee was born in Guyana, South America and moved to Toronto, Canada when she was two. Before her foray into fantasy, she wrote three highly-acclaimed science fiction novels - Warchild, Burndive, and Cagebird. Warchild won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award and Cagebird won the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Award and the Prix Aurora Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Philip K. Dick Award. She currently resides in Ontario, Canada.

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File Size: 939 KB
Print Length: 360 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0316021792
Publisher: Orbit; 1 edition (April 1, 2010)
Publication Date: April 8, 2010
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B00351DSK0
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Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

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Mim

Rich prose, exceptional story, characters that will steal your heart

December 5, 2016

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Breathtaking. I could not put this book down. I read this author's Warchild series and loved it, but wasn't sure I'd like this one. I was very wrong. I think I like this one more, which doesn't seem possible.

The characters felt so real to me, and their story had me gripped until the very end. The prose is exquisite, the world created in these pages a masterpiece. I was rereading whole paragraphs just for the enjoyment of hearing the words in my head a second time.

This book is too rich to speed through, though, so don't expect a light read. The reader is not spoon-fed; there's a bit of an investment here that is very rewarding if you choose to take it. It takes time to fully enjoy, even though you'll want to rush to the end for a resolution.

But at the end it's obvious there will be more books. I did some searching online and found the author mention that she'll be working on a book #2 and #3. They can't come soon enough. I feel like I need to skip back to the beginning and start it again. It's that good.

I have to mention that when I read the "woman taken prisoner" bit in the synopsis I was reluctant to read this. What that often means in fiction (especially fantasy) is some kind of objectification, abuse, or rape, far too often made titillating. There's none of that here. This female character is written with dignity and the author does not resort to this overused trope as an easy way to deepen her struggle. Her struggle is fresh and creative and there's not even a threat of rape anywhere. Thank you to the author for this. And if anyone else is hesitant to read this due to that, there is no need to worry.

I will be thinking about this book for a very long time...

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Ijw

Dense and compelling - do not skim.

June 1, 2013

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So many books can be read at a gallup, even skipping pages without losing the story.

Not this book. Every word is important. Every sentence is a brush stroke in a complex picture. Ms. Lowachee is a master storyteller.

The first two chapters are heavy going - a lot of new labels to be absorbed, but once done the story moves on carrying the reader to surprising places. This is not light reading, nor will the picture fill out to become anything expected. It is not a romance; do not expect happy endings with hugs and kisses. For me, as a female reader, it is refreshing to read a book where female characters are not automatically hit upon.

The stage is the inevitable conflict that comes with the invasion of a continent by new colonists and the original inhabitants are pushed aside. The "melting pot" was originally someone else's home and they are not pleased to be "assimilated" and bow out for these trespassers. Both sides fight with what resources they have. In this novel, the invaders try to use a tool unique to the "abos" and the results are disastrous. When the end is reached, it will feel like it was all inevitable.

Ms. Lowachee has lived in the Arctic and has a feel for this unique land. Her talent is in writing tragic characters; people shaped by the families and worlds they are born into. She tells the stories of how they deal with these forces and their fight to make a world they can live in.

This book is the opening for that drama. This reader wants to continue the ride.

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Ice Bear

Not compelling

October 26, 2010

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The idea is original, but the writing was so boring that I couldn't finish the book. I found I didn't care enough about what happened to even read the ending. Maybe this author is just not my cup of tea.

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Miner

Good start

July 25, 2010

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The book is very good, but I kept comparing it with Warchild and Cagebird which I thought outstanding. I'm happy I bought the book and will buy the next one.

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H Waterhouse

Interesting fantasy colonialism

March 8, 2012

Format: Mass Market Paperback

I have been referring to this as "the problematic colonialism book". I mean that in both senses. It is a book all about how colonialism screws people up, and it's a book where I think some of the colonialist narratives are not examined.

A friend pointed out that the story makes a lot more sense when you realize it's Canadian, and not American fantasy -- that is to say that the fantasy countries are deeply informed by the Canadian experience of contact with original inhabitants. There are snow-dwellers who hunt caribou, and copper-skinned woods-dwellers, and at least two factions of white people attached to shoes and guns and proselytizing and all that.

The story is about a young not!inuit with a tangible spirit animal which can leave her body. Through a series of unfortunate events, she is kidnapped and taken to an industrial-age city, where a crazy meglomaniac is trying to use her magical powers for Bad Ends.

The story is about the unfortunate son of the meglomaniac who is almost as whiny as Harry Potter circa book 6. He never knows what's going on, has a very brittle kind of strength, and may have been one of those kids who took up bullying because it was better than feeling powerless.

The story is about a domesticated abo who is carefully analyzing his masters between forelock tugging.

The story is about Benedictines and Jesuits, although not really, of course, and about the city and the wild, and about madness and compliance, and the dark heart of men.

Also, this story is half a book. It's got a very slow start, then a long ramp up, and right at the crisis moment for all the characters.... you realize the book is over. GAH. I expect that the next book in the series will be along eventually.

Almost everyone in the story is a pragmatist, in their own way. I suspect that this is why it is hard to identify with any of the viewpoint characters. We are used to a diet of protaganists who are at least heroic in their own mind. None of these protaganists is, as near as we can tell.

Read if: You have tolerance for a book with an ending like a New Yorker short story, you like thinking about colonialism, you like magic systems that are not the boring semi-feudal wizards (and in that case, allow me to recommend Death of the Necromancer or Tinker again).

Skip if: You need sympathetic viewpoint characters, you don't want to deal with a very slow start, you hate interrupted stories.

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