"Very complex entertaining romantic fantasy"
When it was suspected that Lord Challo Hassan was part of
the conspiracy to overthrow the king, he and his four-year-
old daughter Angarred were banished from court for
fourteen years. Lord Hagar plotted to find a way to get
back in the graces of King Tezue, but before he could
accomplish this, he was assassinated in the forest while
on a hunt. When someone tries to kill Angarred in her
home, she travels to the capital city of Pergodi to seek
the king's justice. When she arrives at court, she learns that the king is
under the spell of the magician Alkarren, the heir Prince
Norue is plotting with the Takeke and Princess Roddarren
is mad. The giants are on the move to conquer Pergodi
while the princess escapes the city and tries to gather up
an army to overthrow the heir. Angarred realizes that
someone is controlling all these events and she, along
with the magician Matthewar as an ally try to find the
pieces of a magical artifact said to contain the power of
many sorcerers to learn who the puppet master is and stop
him. DAUGHTER OF EXILE is a very complex entertaining romantic
fantasy with so many twists and turns that it is
impossible to predict what will happen next. The heroine
changes over the course of this novel from a naive
innocent to a brilliant strategist and warrior; she always
seeks peace for her homeland without sacrificing her
morals at court. This is Isabel's Glass's debut novel and
it ranks with the works of Andre Norton and Mercedes
Lackey. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted February 27, 2004
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An extraordinary talent bursts on the fantasy scene with a
remarkably engaging novel. Lady Angarred Hashan was raised in exile far from Pergodi,
the capital city. Angarred never knew what had caused her
father's exile; she only knew that at the age of four, she
was brought to Hashan House, an isolated and crumbling
manor, and raised by servants. Her mother, she was told,
had died. Angarred spent hours in her mother's rooms,
handling the fine dresses of Emindal cloth---when she
wasn't running wild through the forests and fields.
Her father was distant and obsessed with regaining his
place at court. The only visitors they ever saw were
secretive men and women who brought news of the events at
court---news of wars and alliances, of the queen's failure
to conceive an heir, of the Princess Roharren's madness and
Prince Norue's growing power, and of the disappearance of
the magicians. The visitors came and went, plotting revenge
for mysterious slights, eating and drinking their way
through the storerooms while Hashan House fell down around
them.
But one day, while hunting in the forest, Lord Hashan was
murdered. And Angarred, in her outrage, determined to go to
the capital and seek justice from the king---for, surely,
the murderer of a lord, even an exiled lord, should be
punished! But the naïve young woman finds a swirling world
of palace intrigue, a dying queen, and an ensorcelled king.
With the help of Mathewar, a handsome but very troubled,
magician, she journeys from the crowded streets of Pergodi
to the Enchanted Forest, from the deadly land of the Others
to the arches of the Giant's Bridge, as she begins to
unravel the secrets of the kingdom and her own history.
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