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A small island in the Inland Sea on a world threatened by the rising power of the Jutras, Crosspointe has buried its secrets deeply, but secrets never stay buried forever. With the possibility of invasion now a topic on the streets, King William must do something drastic to secure his island’s safety and future because the monopoly Crosspointe enjoys is swiftly coming to an end. Only by betrayal can he hope to prevent the destruction of the precarious balance between the monarchy, the merchants, and the powerful magicars who work the dangerous sylveth which is the basis for life on Crosspointe. Thrust into the middle of this already tense situation is Ryland, the king’s younger son, his friend Shaye who is an unproven magicar and a member of the powerful merchant Weverton family, and Fairlie, a metalsmith who holds the friends together in a bond stronger than any of them know how to deal with.
It is impossible to decide which Diana Pharaoh Francis does best: plot with stunning precision or develop characters so totally real you want to invite them to take over your guest room. She does both with such magnificent results that picking up one of her books is an invitation to excellence. Each scene, each line of dialog drops seamlessly into its appointed slot to create a living panorama of such exotic wonder that, of course, this island and its people must be real some place, in some forgotten past, in some world we have yet to find or remember.
Fans of fantasy literature who have not experienced a Francis novel yet are in for a rare treat, for within the pages of The Turning Tide
Book Stats:
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Roc (May 5, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451462688
- ISBN-13: 978-0451462688
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Books in the Crosspointe series in the order they should be read:
The Cipher
The Black Ship
The Turning Tide
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