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Touch Of Power

Touch Of Power, January 2012
Healers #1
by Maria V. Snyder

MIRA
Featuring: Avry of Kazan
400 pages
ISBN: 0778313077
EAN: 9780778313076
Kindle: B0067LVJSS
Trade Size / e-Book
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"A battle of conscience and opposing goals creates a captivating story"

Fresh Fiction Review

Touch Of Power
Maria V. Snyder

Reviewed by Kathyrn Little
Posted December 4, 2011

Fantasy

In a time of chaos, one specific group is often blamed for the trouble. This time around, it is the healers who get the brunt of the heat. Avry is the main character, she is also a healer. As a healer, Avry takes the wounds and disease from others and literally transmits those to herself. She suffers for them, but is not appreciated. Avry is captured by a group of people that want her to heal their ill prince; however, that prince is also leading a campaign to destroy the healers. Avry has to make very hard decisions concerning right and wrong and life and death. The reader will be biting his/her nails along with Avry throughout the novel. The characters, particularly Avry, are fun to read about. She is compassionate, intelligent, and witty-all of the traits one can hope for in a main character. The secondary characters round out the novel and the reader gets to meet quite a few. The events are fast-paced and exciting, the ending is perfect for the story and leaves the reader wanting more. Fortunately TOUCH OF POWER is the beginning of what is hoped to be a long series.

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SUMMARY

Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan assumes their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Territories, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos. Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader, an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own, is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken prince—leader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for. Because the price of peace may well be her life....


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