Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters Trilogy) - Hardcover

Marillier, Juliet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312848803 ISBN 13: 9780312848804

Publisher: Tor Books, 2001

Synopsis

In the sequel to Daughter of the Forest, Liadan, Sorcha's daughter, takes up the destined role of the Sevenwaters clan as she embarks on a fateful journey to find the courage and the weapons to help save her family. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

Second of the Sevenwaters trilogy of novels about the last days of heroic Ireland, Son of the Shadows takes up the story of the children of Sorcha, who saved her brothers whom a sorceress had enchanted into swans, and Hugh, the Briton she married. Her daughter Liadan is a gifted seer and healer who thinks, in spite of her visions, that she knows what the future has in store for her--caring for her dying mother and then an alliance marriage to Eamonn. A chance meeting on the road carries her off to care for a dying man--one of the mercenaries of the sinister Painted Man, Eamonn's arch-enemy and a killer for hire. Liadan discovers that she cannot choose where she loves and that she and the Painted Man are as bound up in destiny as her mother and father were before her.

This is an intelligent historical romance in which the supernatural is a part of the character's everyday lives to an extent that makes it hard to think of the book as specifically a fantasy--these are people to whom the beings of forest speak on a regular basis and to whom sorcery is real. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

‘I enjoyed it enormously. It is a fantasy, full of the magic of the Celtic night, but it has that wonderful all-important feel of reality... a wonderful, riveting story’ Barbara Erskine

‘This hugely enjoyable, romantic Celtic fantasy is a terrific book, well written and unputdownable’ Bookwatch

‘Filled with the powers of earth and sky, lake and forest... sweet and strong as the note of a harp, and painful as a sword thrust deep... a strong sense of realism... a nicely wrought and well-detailed historical fantasy’ Locus

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312848803
• ISBN 13: 9780312848804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 462