Masques
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
4.1
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Patricia Briggs
Experience the fantasy and adventure of #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Brigg's first published novel—the thrilling start of the Sianim series...After an upbringing of proper behavior and oppressive expectations, Aralorn fled her noble birthright for a life of adventure as a mercenary spy. But her latest mission involves more peril than she ever imagined. Agents of Sianim have asked her to gather intelligence on the increasingly popular and powerful sorcerer Geoffrey ae'Magi. Soon Aralorn comes to see past the man's striking charisma—and into a soul as corrupt and black as endless night. And few have the will to resist the sinister might of Geoffrey and his minions. So Aralorn, aided by her enigmatic companion, Wolf, join the growing rebellion against the ae'Magi. But in a war against an enemy armed with the powers of illusion, how do you know who the true enemy is—or where he will strike next?
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Author
Patricia Briggs
Pages
320
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2010-09-28
ISBN
1101443596 9781101443590
Ratings
Google: 5
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"The Author's Note at the beginning hits the nail right on the head - the story has indeed been done before, it is very much a First Book and the final result is a wee bit juvenile and cliché. I can absolutely see almost every 1980s and 1990s fantasy authors that she got her inspiration from, too, because they are the same exact authors I grew up with and loved and still reread to this day. ❤️
As a First Book with mediocre reviews, I honestly didn't expect much. So I was quite tickled when I ended up enjoying the heck out of this book! I haven't read the original so I cannot speak for any awkwardness that existed before Briggs gave it a throrough edit and refresh 15 or so years after the first publication, but the result is a book that took me right back my youth in the 1990s when Tamora Pierce and Mercedes Lackey were my favorite authors ever and I went adventuring with Allana and Diane and Kero and Elspeth as often as I could!
(I am also quite sure those two fabulous authors are were Patricia Briggs got her inspiration to create Aralorn and Wolf's world. Sometimes the stories were so closely related, in fact, that I wouldn't be at all surprised if Masques may have been, in its very earliest idea days, safely hidden away and forgotten with Clippy on a Windows 95 Desktop - been a Valdamer fanfiction. ;) )"
Maren L