The Court War
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Publisher Description
The second book in this epic fantasy saga spins a tale of magic and danger, as a healer finds herself pulled deeper into a web of secrets and world-ending magic.
With innovative worldbuilding, witty banter, and world-ending magic, The Court War is epic fantasy at its best and most compelling.
Fenra Lowens, with her partner Elvanyn Karamisk, has already faced the Godstone. Now she has a different, simpler problem: getting the stick-in-the-mud practitioners of the White Court to return to the old ways of practice, the ways that keep the World healthy.
But before she has a chance to present her case, the uneasy balance of power between the practitioners of the White Court and the mundanes of the Red Court—in existence since the World itself began—suddenly erupts into open warfare.
Fenra is torn between helping her friends and fellow practitioners and moving ahead with the demands of an increasingly impatient World. Though she has help from unexpected allies, Fenra begins to suspect that this conflict isn't just about politics. The hand of an old enemy may be at work here....
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Malan's entertaining yet anticlimactic sequel to The Godstone finds independent magic Practitioner Fenra Lowens tasked with convincing the narrow-minded Practitioners of the White Court to leave the comforts of the unnamed capital City and use their magic to keep the World, here imagined as a living organism, in balance. But the people of the City are growing restless and tension mounts between the Red Court's mundanes, who can't use magic, and the White Court's Practitioners. War breaks out between these two factions before Fenra can make her case, landing her and her partner, Elvanyn, in the crossfire. They must band together with new allies—including White Court council member Tamari Otwyn and Red Court courtier Wittenslade Camdin Volden—to stop the conflict. All the while, the World is dying, triggering natural disasters and leaving Fenra torn between helping her friends and meeting the World's impatient demands. Despite the sky-high stakes, there's a lack of urgency to the oddly diffuse plot, making this less of a page turner than the previous installment. Still, the expanded magic system and new characters add some intrigue. Series fans will hope things tighten up in Malan's next outing.
