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    The Sacrifice: Book One of The Fey

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    Sweeping, intricate, and powerfully written, New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s The Sacrifice launches a thrilling saga of the quest for power fought over generations.
    When the most powerful ruling family in the world attempts to conquer a tiny, seemingly helpless island kingdom, they meet forces they never knew existed, and face an epic battle that changes everything. With a richly imagined world full of diverse and compelling characters, Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s brilliant storytelling illuminates the timeless power struggle between politics, religion, and family that continues to resonate in the all-too-real world of today.
    From its beautifully crafted opening to its powerfully surprising conclusion, this spellbinding masterpiece takes fantasy to soaring new heights and solidifies Rusch’s place as the greatest storyteller of our time.
    “A very good, very large fantasy...nicely done and with a particularly satisfying and unexpected resolution.”
    —Science Fiction Chronicle
    “Rusch’s greatest strength...is her ability to close down a story and leave the reader feeling that the author could not possibly have wrung any more satisfaction out of the piece.”
    —The Kansas City Star
    “Kristine Kathryn Rusch integrates the fantastic elements so rigorously into her story that it is often hard to remember she is not merely recording the here and now.”
    —Science Fiction Weekly
    “Whether [Rusch] writes high fantasy, horror, sf, or contemporary fantasy, I’ve always been fascinated by her ability to tell a story with that enviable gift of invisible prose. She’s one of those very few writers whose style takes me right into the story—the words and pages disappear as the characters and their story swallows me whole.... Rusch has style.”
    —Charles de Lint

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateMay 5, 2011
    ISBN9781452461717
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    The Sacrifice: Book One of The Fey
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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    • 3/5
      The writing is excellent. The world building is very good. I just could not get attached to any of the charcters and therefore I don't feel any draw to see what happens next.
    • 2/5
      Very creative concepts for magic. it's a bit gruesome, which I'm completely fine with. Nonsensical character actions and plot devices were jarring and common enough that they undermined the story.
    • 1/5
      from Audible.com, it comes in 3 part. I really liked part 1 but part 3 just keeps putting me to sleep. The narration is good though.