Carol Berg: The spirit lens (2010, Roc)
464 pages
English language
Published Dec. 31, 2010 by Roc.
This took me a bit to get in to, hence the 4 rating. Once I did, though, I fell in love with the characters, as I tend to do with Berg's books. Looking forward to the sequel.
Magic! Intrigue! Torture! Jerks!
The foreshadowing is occasionally made of ham, and the characters occasionally reveal themselves to be disappointingly 2-dimensional, but there are enough ham accompaniments for the whole to be made inoffensive, and if you keep reading for long enough the 2D quality turns out to not be entirely what you expected. A worthwhile read.
