The Bone Doll’s Twin (The Tamir Triad, Book 1) - Softcover

Flewelling, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007113072 ISBN 13: 9780007113071

Publisher: Voyager, 2001

Synopsis

New epic fantasy trilogy from the US author of THE NIGHTRUNNER series

Long ago, during the dark days of the Great War with Plenimar, King Thelatimos journeyed to the Oracle of the God Illior at Afra to save his warn-torn kingdom. Here he was presented with a prophecy ‘So long as a daughter of Thelatimos’ line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated.’ And that is how the line of queens ruling over Skala was established...

However, as generations went by the male heirs to the throne became intensely resentful of the prophecy that emasculated their claim to power. Finally Queen Agnalain took the throne and the people of Skala suffered under her erratic and selfish command. Prompted by the people’s outcry over this mad queen, her son Prince Erius claimed primogeniture, and seized the throne.

Erius’s ascent may have pleased the people of Skala, but a faction of the population, one who had not forgotten the prophecy, were worried. Plague, drought and famine spread throughout the kingdom weakening it’s defences and offering easy pickings to Skala’s old enemy and neighbour, Plenimar.

As people start to recall the Oracle’s prophecy, Erius begins to quietly kill of his female relatives who pose the only threat to his monarchy. Constantly in fear for her life, Princess Ariani the King’s sister, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. But Ariani is married to Lord Rhius, the patron of the powerful wizard Iya, and Iya has sinister plans for the babes...

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Review:

'A fantasy that does not flinch from its premise all the way to a satisfying conclusion ... The story pulled me under and carried me off with it.' ROBIN HOBB

‘The Bone Doll's Twin is a thoroughly engrossing new fantasy. It got its hooks into me on the first page, and didn't let loose until the last. I am already looking forward to the next instalment.’ GEORGE RR MARTIN

‘Original, well-written, and totally absorbing ... by turns poignant, spooky, and earthy ... a moving and thoroughly recommended read’ STARBURST

From the Back Cover:

So long as a daughter of Thelatimos' line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated.

For generations Skala's queens upheld the prophecy. But then Erius seized the throne from his mother, the mad Queen Agnalain. Now the royal tomb is filled with the corpses of his female relatives, and plague, drought and famine are spreading throughout the kingdom. Not all have forgotten the prophecy, though, and when the powerful wizard Iya visits the Oracle she is given a dark vision.

Black makes white. Foul makes pure. Evil creates greatness

King Erius's sister, Ariani, is about to give birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Iya knows what she must do. But even her potent magic is not strong enough, and she seeks the help of a hill witch, outcast as necromancer, to perform the abominable ceremony that will seal the fate of the newborns, joining them one to the other in an unbreakable supernatural bond.

But one twin dies, and when Ariani commits suicide the surviving child is mysteriously drawn to the sinister doll that never left the Princess's side, and haunted by terrifying visions of a doppelganger who seems bent on chaos and destruction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Voyager
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0007113072
• ISBN 13: 9780007113071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448