Naamah's Curse
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4.6 • 97 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, delivers book two in her new lushly imagined trilogy featuring daughter of Alba, Moirin.
Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people. After a long ordeal, she not only succeeds, but surrenders to a passion the likes of which she's never known. But the lovers' happiness is short lived, for Bao is entangled in a complication that soon leads to their betrayal.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this sequel to 2009 s Naamah s Kiss, Moirin, the devoted servant of a sex goddess, journeys across half of a fantasy version of Asia in search of her soulmate, Bao. In Tatar territory, she finds Bao... and his wife. His father-in-law, the Great Khan, is willing to go to great extremes to keep Bao and Moirin apart. Captured by the fanatic Patriarch of Riva, Moirin escapes to find that Bao has vanished again, this time headed toward the distant lair of the Spider Queen and her army of assassins. The romantic tale is marred by Moirin s narcissistic awareness that she is destined for a glorious fate that lesser mortals like Bao s jealous wife may only envy. Carey s storytelling ability is top-notch, however, and readers will applaud her willingness to resolve major plot threads in the middle book of a trilogy.
Customer Reviews
Amazing, fresh and addicting
Like the first one of this series, the beginning is unimaginably tedious... but, like the first again, well worth the grind. This book has me drawn to it as surely as Phedre was to a certain antagonist from the first novels, and will surely do the same to any reader with enough patience and faith—no, enough trust, as her ability has surely been proved—to endure its necessarily slow beginnings.
But do brace yourself; like any good predator, it catches its prey by surprise.
Good but...
As a fan of her other books I thought this series is pretty good and worth the read. However it got a little tedious in this book with all the traveling and shrugging off of addiction. The author got the religious bits right and the story was engaging, of the two in this series the first is my favorite
Another masterful entry...
Naamah's Curse expands the rich universe created by Carey in Kushiel's Dart. The story picks up after the events of Naamah's Kiss, with Moirin traveling across the length and breadth of Carey's alternate version of Asia. It was a joy to read and is another stroke of brilliance for the series.