Kushiel's Dart - Softcover

Carey, Jacqueline

4.02

80,025 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330493744 ISBN 13: 9780330493741

Publisher: Tor, 2003

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Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Ph�dre n� Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, and the arts of pleasure. Above all, she learns the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, yet talented spy, she may seem an unlikely heroine...but when Ph�dre stumbles upon a plot threatening her homeland, Terre d'Ange, she has no choice but to act.

Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia, and accompanied only by disdainful young warrior-priest, Ph�dre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey, to return to her people and deliver them a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond.

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Review:

"A very sophisticated fantasy, intricately plotted and a fascinating read."--Robert Jordan

"This brilliant and daring debut catapults Carey immediately into the top rank of fantasy novelists . . . . At the end, the heroine reminds one of an equally strong-minded sister whose home was Tara."-"Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
A very sophisticated fantasy, intricately plotted and a fascinating read.--Robert Jordan

A very sophisticated fantasy, intricately plotted and a fascinating read. Robert Jordan

This brilliant and daring debut catapults Carey immediately into the top rank of fantasy novelists . . . . At the end, the heroine reminds one of an equally strong-minded sister whose home was Tara. "Publishers Weekly (starred review)""

A very sophisticated fantasy, intricately plotted and a fascinating read. Robert Jordan

"A very sophisticated fantasy, intricately plotted and a fascinating read." --Robert Jordan

"This brilliant and daring debut catapults Carey immediately into the top rank of fantasy novelists . . . . At the end, the heroine reminds one of an equally strong-minded sister whose home was Tara." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book Description:

A massive fantasy tale about the violent death of an old age and the birth of a new one. Here is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies.

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