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Wednesday 15 June 2011

WW28: FLESH AND SPIRIT

WW28
A chance to showcase your favourite!
  • First you grab our Wicked Wednesday pic.
  • Then you grab a book. Turn to page 28. Take the first sentence. And then you post it in your site with a link back to WW28.
  • Come back to Cherry Mischievous - WW28 and give us the url of your post (in a comment at a WW28 post) so that other WW28 readers can find your WW28 offering.
WW28 book offering : Flesh And Spirit by Carol Berg

Page 28, 1st Sentence:
The desolation was almost enough to make one believe the Harrowers had succeeded in their mad quest to erase all trace of human works from the land.

About Flesh And Spirit:
Book 1 of the Lighthouse doulogy

In a land torn apart by civil war, pestilence, and shaky alliances, a man branded a traitor ends up in a place he never expected...

The rebellious son of a long line of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent most of his life trying to escape what society - and his family - have ordained for him. His own mother has predicted that he will meet his doom in water, blood, and ice. Her divination seems fulfilled when a comrade abandons Valen in a rainy wilderness half-dead, addicted to an enchantment that converts pain to pleasure, and possessing only a stolen book of maps.

Offered sanctuary in a nearby monastery, Valen discovers that his book - rumored to lead men into the realm of angels - gains him entry into a world of secret societies, doomsayers, monks, princes, and madmen, all seeking to unlock the mystery of a coming dark age. To his dismay, Valen must face what he fled so long ago, for the key to Navronne's doom is buried in half-forgotten myth and the secrets of his own past...
Source: Info in the About Flesh And Spirit was taken from the author's website at http://www.sff.net/people/carolberg/lighthouse.html on 20/03/2011.

3 comments:

Melissa (My World...in words and pages) said...

Well, that is one powerful quote! And now that I've read the description of the book, well I'm going to look at it and add it to my want list. thank you!!!

Cherry said...

Melissa (My World...in words and pages) - I count the Lighthouse doulogy as one because as the author reportedly admitted, they are just one book published twice... and it's the best book ever Mel! :)

Tales of Whimsy said...

Oh my! That sounds like a wild quest and great read.

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