The Ruined City
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Paula Brandon's epic and captivating trilogy continues as magic and mystery wreak havoc with the very fabric of existence.
Reality is wavering. Soon its delicate balance will shift and an ancient force will return to overwhelm the Veiled Isles. Now those with the arcane talent forge an uneasy alliance in hopes that their combined abilities are enough to avert an eerie catastrophe. Yet it may be too late. The otherworldly change has begun. The streets of the city are rife with chaos, plague, and revolt. And it is here that Jianna Belandor, once a pampered daughter of privilege, returns to face new challenges.
The dead walk the streets. The docile amphibian slaves of humanity have taken up arms. Jianna's home lies in ruins. Her only happiness resides in her growing attraction to Falaste Rione, a brilliant nomadic physician whose compassion and courage have led him to take dangerous risks. Jianna, stronger and more powerful than she knows, has a role to play in the unfolding destiny of her world. But a wave of madness is sweeping across the land, and time is running out--even for magic.
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Paula Brandon. (2012). The Ruined City. Random House Publishing Group.
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The dead walk the streets. The docile amphibian slaves of humanity have taken up arms. Jianna's home lies in ruins. Her only happiness resides in her growing attraction to Falaste Rione, a brilliant nomadic physician whose compassion and courage have led him to take dangerous risks. Jianna, stronger and more powerful than she knows, has a role to play in the unfolding destiny of her world. But a wave of madness is sweeping across the land, and time is running out--even for magic.
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The genre-blending sequel to 2011’s The Traitor’s Daughter continues the story of Jianna Belandor, the sheltered offspring of a powerful lord. When she returns to her home after being abducted and rescued, she finds the city in ruins, her home partially burned down, and her father missing. A revolution is looming, a plague is killing people and turning them into the wandering dead, and a mysterious magical wellspring known as the Source will cause a devastating cataclysm if arcanists can’t stop it. Brandon’s character development is exceptional, as is her ability to interweave numerous story lines into a briskly paced narrative. Paradoxically, the overriding strength of this saga—the audacious fusion of fantasy and romance with amphibian humanoids, automatons, and a zombie apocalypse—is also its biggest weakness. Readers expecting a conventional fantasy may be put off by the ambitiously creative story, but fantasy and romance fans looking for something unusual will find this amalgamation wildly entertaining.
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