Reviews of Victoria Strauss Titles

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The Lady of Ruddesmere

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Geraint, the bastard son of the wealthy and vengeful Baron of Wallestoke, is sent into service at the remote estate of Rhuddesmere. He is warmly received by Rhuddesmere's Lady and her family, and treated with a respect and kindness he has never known. But Rhuddesmere holds many secrets, and unbeknownst to Geraint, his father has sent him there as a spy. When he stumbles on a forbidden ritual and flees back to Wallestoke, he sets in motion a chain of events that unleashes a terrible fate on Rhuddesmere and all its people.

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A Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Nominee

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The Arm of the Stone

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Long ago, when the worlds were one... So begins the Tale, the ancestral legend Bron's family has guarded for a thousand years. Once they were the keepers of the Stone, the most powerful, sacred, coveted object on earth. But the Stone was stolen by a treacherous warrior, who brought it into an emerging world and used its power to found the Order of Guardians, whose reign of oppression has endured for ten centuries. The Tale tells of the One Who Comes, a liberator who will take back the Stone and break the Guardians' rule. Bron is the first of his line in a thousand years to manifest the precious Gift of power only the Guardians possess--is he the One the Tale foretells? Disguising himself, Bron infiltrates the Order of Guardians, where he is recuited to the Arm of the Stone--the Order's dreaded enforcers, the most powerful and hated men on earth. But in his rise to power Bron incurs the enmity of Jolyon, a cruel and vengeful member of the Arm of the Stone, who vows to destroy him. The weapon Jolyon chooses is a dedicated young Guardian named Liliane, whom he sends to Bron as a spy, with orders to uncover Bron's secrets by any means necessary. But Jolyon has not counted on what will happen when Liliane falls in love with Bron--a catastrophic union whose consequences will rock the Order of Guardians to its core, and change the world forever.

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This book was so compelling that I put everything else aside and read it. It is a really brilliant novel...unusual and fascinating...exceedingly well done.


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- A Science Fiction Book Club Alternate Selection for the month of August 1998 -

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