Vengeance
The Tainted Realm Trilogy: Book One
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4.1 • 38 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Admired fantasy author Ian Irvine delivers a new, fast-paced series, The Tainted Realm. It begins with Vengeance, a story of betrayal, murder and a girl's hunt for justice in a world where two peoples are divided and mistrust can only lead to war.
In Cython's underground slave camps, only the timid and obedient survive - but Tali is neither of these. In Cython, having magic means the death penalty, and Tali's gift is swelling out of her control.
Though no slave has ever escaped, Tali must, for she has sworn to bring her mother's killers to justice. She meets Rix, a nobleman, and together they flee through a land at war, pursued by enemies and allies alike. Before they can solve the crime, and save the realm, they must learn to trust each other.
Rix's subconscious is scarred by a sickening secret that he comes to realise links him to the killing. Tali is hunted by a faceless enemy that can only be beaten by magic. The one person who can teach her how to use her unique and unruly magic is the killer himself.
As she unravels the conspiracy behind her mother's murder, Tali's quest for justice turns to a lust for vengeance. Yet how can she avenge herself on a killer who died two thousand years ago?
Author Biography
Ian Irvine is a marine scientist and fantasy writer who has written twenty-six novels to date. His three fantasy series, The View from the Mirrow, The Well of Echoes and Song of Tears, are international bestsellers. He has also written a near-future eco-thriller trilogy about catastrophic climate change, Human Rites, recently republished in an updated edition, plus eleven novels for children in the Runcible Jones, Sorcerer's Tower and Grim and Grimmer series. Vengeance is the first book in the The Tainted Realm trilogy.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Some 100 noble children from Hightspall were taken hostage in underground Cython, and they and their descendants were enslaved. A thousand years later, one of these descendants, Tali vi Torgist, is born with the same magical powers that got her mother killed, and is determined not to suffer the same fate. When Tali escapes to Hightspall, she finds her life endangered by both magical prophecies and brutal commercial interests. Although Irvine tells a satisfying story, the pacing is uneven, detailing Tali's ordeals in slavery and her friends' bickering at exhaustive length while spending little time on the book's climactic scenes. The epic fantasy jarringly switches gears for a fight with a naked shape-shifter, used as an excuse for out-of-place juvenile sexual humor. Despite these flaws and clich s such as Tali being referred to as the One, this solidly readable work will appeal to less discerning fantasy fans.
Customer Reviews
Escapism at it's best
Once again Ian Irvine has delivered a tale that pulls you in and let's you escape from your cares. The characters are well developed, good story line though sometimes I did get a bit lost. Slightly more repetition than his Three Worlds sagas, but still thoroughly enjoyable. Can't wait to read the next volume Rebellion.
Irvine does it again!
Great read, if u liked Ian's other books you'll love this one. I could not put it down.