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Child of Fire
by Harry Connolly
Annalise
Powliss has been forbidden to kill Ray Lilly but that doesn’t mean he
feels safe around her. As her driver, he’s accompanying her on her
latest mission, knowing his own life may be lost in the process.
Someone is abusing magical spells in the town of Hammer Bay and it is
Annalise’s job to kill the sorcerer behind those spells. Who is
destroying the children of Hammer Bay and can Ray and Annalise stop
them? And will Ray get a chance to step out on his own to show Annalise
that he’s trustworthy after all?
CHILD OF FIRE is a dark tale in which the lines between good and evil
blur and shift. Harry Connolly has crafted a storyline that defies some
of the usual stereotypes of urban fantasy as the characters all have a
darker, devious side to them. Ray is the hero of the story but he’s
almost more of an anti-hero. His past is gradually unveiled as the tale
progresses but there are still mysteries left for future books in the
Twenty Palaces series. His boss, Annalise, is an even bigger mystery
but she definitely has a vicious side. Not everything Ray or Annalise
does is comfortably heroic as they are caught in a war where sometimes
innocents can and must die for the greater good.
CHILD OF FIRE sets off on a fast pace in which the action is almost
unrelenting. However, Harry Connolly doesn’t sacrifice character
development or world building in the process but instead incorporates
both into the pace of the tale. In fact, it is the revelation of the
various mysteries that makes CHILD OF FIRE so tantalizing. One wants to
keep reading just to uncover answers to the questions about the Twenty
Palaces Society and the history behind Ray and Annalise. Bravo to Harry
Connolly for such a spectacular first novel!
Publisher: Del Rey (October 2009)
Other books in series: First book in the
Twenty Palaces series
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