Fire Dance: The Harp and Ring Sequence #2 - Hardcover

Myer, Ilana C.

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9780765378323: Fire Dance: The Harp and Ring Sequence #2

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765378329 ISBN 13: 9780765378323

Publisher: Tor Books, 2018

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Palace intrigue, dark magic, and terrifying secrets drive the beautifully written standalone novel Fire Dance, set in the world of Last Song Before Night.

Espionage, diplomacy, conspiracy, passion, and power are the sensuously choreographed steps of the soaring new high fantasy novel by Ilana C. Myer, one woman's epic mission to stop a magical conflagration.

Lin, newly initiated in the art of otherwordly enchantments, is sent to aid her homeland's allies against vicious attacks from the Fire Dancers: mysterious practitioners of strange and deadly magic. Forced to step into a dangerous waltz of tradition, treachery, and palace secrets, Lin must also race the ticking clock of her own rapidly dwindling life to learn the truth of the Fire Dancers' war, and how she might prevent death on a scale too terrifying to contemplate.

Myer's novel is a symphony of secret towers, desert winds, burning sands, blood and dust. Her prose soars, and fluid movements of the politically charged plot carry the reader toward a shocking crescendo.

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About the Author:

ILANA C. MYER has worked as a journalist in Jerusalem and a cultural critic for various publications. As Ilana Teitelbaum she has written book reviews and critical essays for The Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and the Huffington Post. Last Song Before Night was her first novel, followed by Fire Dance. She lives in New York.

Review:

*KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW* "[Myer's] world opens like a flower, revealing fresh landscapes both beautiful and dreadful...Worth waiting for."

"Intricate, enthralling, and devastating--a haunting successor to Last Song Before Night." --Yoon Ha Lee, author of the Locus Award winning Ninefox Gambit

"Fire Dance is a brilliantly imagined page-turner that uses lush, lyrical prose to propel the reader through the machinations of a wildly original fantasy world populated with unforgettable characters. Highly recommended." -Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char

"A wondrous world matched in beauty only by the prose in which it is sung. Ilana Myer is incredible." --Ken Liu, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award winning author of The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms

"Fire Dance sings of the atrocities of kings, the conspiracy of sorcerers, and the silk poison of palace intrigue -- and of a few desperate, hopeful, infinitely complicated people who struggle forward under the weight. A triumph of insight and humanity." -Seth Dickinson, author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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