Juliet Marillier's book touched the heart of me.
From the turn of the first page I was swept up in the
perilous journey of Caitrin, daughter of Berach.
An anachronism in the early years of the Norman invasion,
Caitrin has been trained in languages and script by the best
of men, her father.
That slender thread is all she has to sustain her when her
headlong dash from a life of desperation lands her in the
eerie wilds of the west lands.
At the end of her coin, near the end of her strength Caitrin
is left on a woods-lined path by a carter who refuses to go
further into the wild magic he fears.
She finds shelter for the night with the people of a
village; who will only allow her within the barricade after
she recites a Christian prayer.
They warn of the ancient darkness surrounding the keep on
the hill, Whistling Tor. Fear has them barring their doors
each night and using every rune of protection they can lay
their hands on. But to the keep she must go if she has any
hope of evading
what pursues her. How can any dark whispers of uncanny magic
be more terrifying than what she flees?
The keep on the tor is a world within a world, led by a man
of fire and ice with halting step and eyes of piercing blue.
Nothing is as it seems. The mirrors reflect on the past, not
the present. A tangled garden hides a treasure in a corner
and secrets at its heart. And the people who walk the halls?
They are the deepest puzzle of all.
Any reader who has faced bone deep fear will identify with
Caitrin and the choices she must make.
HEART'S BLOOD is the most satisfying of books, with a happy
ending, hard won.
The national bestselling "fine folklorist and gifted
narrator" (Publishers Weekly) of the
Sevenwaters novels conjures a new sweeping romantic
fantasy.
Anluan has been crippled since
childhood, part of a curse that has besieged his family and
his home of Whistling Tor. But when the young scribe Caitrin
is retained to sort through family documents, she brings
about unexpected changes in the household, casting a hopeful
light against the despairing shadows.
But to truly
free Anluan's burdened soul, Caitrin must unravel the web of
sorcery woven by his ancestors before it claims his life-and
their love...
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