Echoes of Understorey
A Titan's Forest Novel
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Return to the mythical rainforest ruled by reincarnated gods in the quest fantasy Echoes of Understorey, the heart-pounding sequel to Thoraiya Dyer's Crossroads of Canopy.
Great deeds are expected of Imeris.
Raised by accomplished warriors and skilled healers, and being the sister to a goddess, Imeris always felt pressured to be the best fighter in Understorey. Yet during a mission to capture the body-snatching sorceress Kirrik, Imeris fails disastrously. With death on her conscience and in hiding from her peers, Imeris climbs up to the sun-kissed world of Canopy to learn new ways to defeat Kirrik. What she doesn’t expect is to be recruited in a Hunt for the Ages, against a terrifying divine monster that will take all of her skills to stop.
"I am majorly impressed. A unique, gorgeous, and dangerous world!”—Tamora Pierce
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Dyer's expansive second Titan's Forest fantasy (after Crossroads of Canopy) finds turmoil and prejudice in the human cities of Canopy, Understorey, and Floor, which all exist within colossal trees. Understorian Imeris, the best fighter in the Loftfol training school, hopes to achieve glory by killing the body-snatching sorceress Kirrik, a task her three adoptive fathers have failed to accomplish. After Imeris and Oldest-Father encounter Kirrik in Floor and suffer a devastating defeat, Imeris looks to gain knowledge and skills from her new friend, the sad but gifted green-skinned shape-shifter Anahah. Suddenly, Imeris is conscripted into a hunt to kill a rampaging patchwork creature that was created by the vindictive goddess Orin of Canopy to destroy her traitorous bodyguard. In confronting the creature, Imeris, Anahah, the burly slave Daggad, and blacksmith Sorros (whose daughter's body Kirrik now inhabits) travel between Canopy and Understorey, use magical artifacts, confront the evils of slavery, seek Imeris's birth parents, and dodge the petty whims of living deities. There's far more to this story than can easily be summarized, and readers will savor its intricacy, depicted in evocative prose ("the monsoon greeted her with a wet slap across the face"). Dyer skillfully weaves elements of mythology, family loyalty, and divine destiny into a distinctive, enchanting, and complete world.
