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Title: Ombria in Shadow
Title: Ombria in Shadow
Series:
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Author:
Patricia McKillip
Rating:
4 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Fantasy
Pages:
316
Format:
Digital Edition
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Synopsis: |
Ombria, Greatest City in the World. Ombria, a City said to Co-Exist with it's own Shadow, a city in its own right.
The King has died, his mistress thrown
out of the palace, the prince a drugged lackey to the Regent and a
bastard cousin trying to stay alive amongst the factions. Throw in a
sorceress and her helper and you have the ingredients for intrigue,
love and just maybe how Fairytales come to be.
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My Thoughts:
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Another fantastic book by McKillip. Ombria is a city that appears to trade places with it's own shadow every couple of generations but no one can ever remember the actual change. Stories come about that hint at it, but nothing concrete.
That is just the
backdrop of this book and isn't the central point, but the idea of
The Past, A Shadow, The Undercity, all flow through the narrative
like a deeper current in a wide river.
The actual story
about the little prince, his father's mistress, the bastard who wants
to protect them both and the sorceress's apprentice was really good.
The tension was there for the whole story and you just didn't know
what was going to happen.
The ending was
appropriately Fairytale'ish and I liked it. McKillip is a talented
author and I just like her stuff.
★★★★☆
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