Kim has done her best to bury her love for Alec behind the
routine of a plebeian teaching job in the Pacific Northwest,
when a chance encounter with a spirit has her reevaluating
her choices. Kim abandoned Dobrenica, leaving her cousin
Ruli a clear field to marry Alec and thus provide the
magical separation necessary to the security of the nation,
but something has gone wrong, Dobrenica is still tied to the
mundane world.
She arrives home to learn her mother and grandmother are in
London, with her father soon to follow, visiting Milo, the
former leader of the unique and magical country. With the
warnings of the spirit ringing in her soul, what can Kim do
but to accompany her dad and see what has happened to skew
things so badly.
Sherwood Smith picks up her tale in Book two of the Coronets
and Steel series very soon after Book one, Coronets and
Steel. leaves off. I really suggest reading these in
order. The beautifully Byzantine plot of the series demands
full knowledge before immersion into book 2, BLOOD SPIRIT.
That small codicil aside, BLOOD SPIRIT is a fully satisfying
read, a tale to be savored. The mess that Dobrenican
politics has become challenges many of the characters to use
strengths previously hidden while Kim's American family
becomes caught up in more of the action. The tangled and
engrossing plot (involving vampires, ghostly animals and
many of the characters readers loved in the first book)
leads inexorably to a stunningly delicious conclusion.
Everyone's favorite sword-wielding California girl returns-
from the author of Coronets and Steel. With the man she
loves set to marry a look-alike princess, Kim Murray returns
to California from the magical country of Dobrenica to heal
her broken heart. But family politics soon have her leaving
for London, where she is forced into a duel with a
Dobrenican nobleman. He reveals that her great sacrifice,
leaving Alec, was a disaster. To fix her mistake, Kim
returns to Dobrenica, but what she finds there is far more
shocking and dangerous than she ever imagined. Not just
politics and personalities but ghosts and magic, murder and
mystery, await her as she struggles to understand the many
faces of love. Once again Kim has to take sword in hand as
she tries to make peace and learn the truth. Only, whose
truth?
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