Wolfsbane
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
It's tough being the foretold saviour of your race. Rory MacGregor, kept a virtual prisoner in his own father's dun and hunted by the Sithe queen, needs a break now and then - and what better fun than tearing the Veil no one else can tear, and escaping to the Otherworld? In that dangerous Otherworld, Hannah Falconer is as trapped by circumstance as the strange wild Sithe boy whose horse nearly kills her. When Rory tricks her into crossing the Veil and entering his own world, she's sure it can't be any worse than her usual home life.
Meanwhile, Seth MacGregor is fighting to keep his clann safe from the malevolent queen Kate. When an attack comes after years of stalemate, he is shocked to discover who is leading it, and who else is conspiring against him. Will the cunning and experience of five hundred years be enough to confront the threat? And how many friends - and how many lovers - is Seth willing to sacrifice to keep his son?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Philip's third Rebel Angels fantasy novel (following Bloodstone) finds the Bloodstone himself, Rory MacGregor, popping back and forth between our world and the Sithe's whenever he can sneak a trip across the Veil. On one such trip he returns with endangered teen Hannah Falconer. When Rory's father, Sithe dun leader Seth, allows her to stay so that isolated Rory can have a friend, Rory grows more attached to her and discovers that she has a prior Sithe connection. But Sithe queen Kate NicNiven still means to destroy the Veil and needs Rory to do so, and she sets in motion a plan to wipe out Seth and his followers. Centering around the conflicts between Seth and Rory, Seth's newly-returned love Fionnuala MacAngus, and the fallout from Seth's half-brother's death, most of this installment is character development, thread-tying, and Hannah's outsider perspective, concluding with Kate's attack and the devastating results. Philip continues to excel at depicting relationship and character growth, and the slow boil to action among the long-lived but increasingly impatient Sithe.
