Thornlost
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Melanie Rawn returns to her rich high fantasy world in Thornlost, the sequel to Touchstone and Elsewhens.
Cayden is part Elf, part Fae, part human Wizard—and all rebel. His aristocratic mother would have him follow his father to the Royal Court, to make a high-society living off the scraps of kings. But Cade lives and breathes for the theater, and he's good, very good. He's a tregetour—a wizard who is both playwright and magicwielder. It is Cade's power that creates the magic, but a tregetour is useless without a glisker—an elf who can spin out the magic onto the stage, to enchant the audience. And Cade's glisker, Mieka, is something special too. So is their fettler, Rafe, who controls the magic and keeps them and the audience safe. And their masker, Jeska, who speaks all the lines, is every young girl's dream.
They are reaching for the highest reaches of society and power, but not the way Cade's mother thinks they should. They'll change their world, or die trying.
The Glass Thorns Series
#1 Touchstone
#2 Elsewhens
#3 Thornlost
#4 Window Wall
#5 Playing to the Gods (forthcoming)
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rawn follows Touchstone and Elsewhens with an immersive, satisfying, and creative third tale of magical Renaissance theater. Cayden Silversun is the tregetour (wizard playwright) of the controversial and creative Touchstone theater company. For better and worse, the company has attracted the attention of powerful nobles, as well as rival troupes. Plots and schemes abound, from an archduke and an unpleasant theater troupe using magic to spread intolerance to a foreign princess trying to advance the rights of women, but in a smart move, Rawn makes the most important conflict of the story far more simple and personal: Cade is desperate to save his best friend, Mieka, the troupe's illusionist, from a prophesied future of total self-destruction. Rawn's characters are so intimately involved with their world that their new innovations in illusion seem as natural and exciting as the intrigues they're swept up in. Despite looming issues of class differences, bigotry, and addiction, at heart, the Touchstone players just want to stay together and make great art.
