"Spellbinding tale"
After nine years of fighting the Shadowed, a powerful
wizard and his armies, Tier is coming home. When he stays
at an inn he saves the life of a Traveler, a powerful mage
in a land that hates people who use magic. When they arrive
at his village, he marries the mage Seraph and they start
out their married life farming a piece of land nobody else
would touch. They have three children all of whom have
different Talents and they are relatively happy until Tier
doesn't return home after a season of trapping. The leaders of the village tell her Tier is dead but when
she and her children investigate the remains, they are
magically able to ascertain that the burned body is not
Seraph's husband. After fighting a priest and her brother
in law who is Shadowed, she learns that her husband was
taken to the Emperor's palace in Taela by the Secret Path,
a shadow organization of second and third sons who strip
the powers of the Talented and use it for their own
purposes. Seraph, with the help of other Travelers intends
to free her husband but when she arrives at the palace,
Tier informs her they must break the power of the Secret
Path in order to save the Empire from their behind the
scenes rule. Patricia Briggs is a talented storyteller who enchants her
audience with a spellbinding tale. The people who are
shadowed are open to the Stalker, an evil entity created by
the wizards of Colossae. The few wizards who survived the
destruction of the city, a necessary actin needed to bind
the Stalker so he won't destroy the human race are sent out
into the world as Travelers to fight the evil entities that
the Stalker leaks into the world. Saraph, who for two
decades, led a normal life, realizes she must fight the
Shadowed that is loose in the world in order to avoid
another war. This courageous character is only one of the
reason's RAVEN'S SHADOWis going on this reviewer's keeper
shelf. Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 7, 2004
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 24, 2007
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