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Ward
Against Disaster (Chronicles
of a Reluctant Necromancer #3)
by Melanie Card
Release
Date: 01/19/14
Entangled
Teen
276
pages
Summary
from Goodreads:
Ward de'Ath should be dead by now. Instead, he’s chasing after a
soul-eating creature—that he unleashed— and is bent on stopping her before she
slaughters more innocents. Fortunately, Celia Carlyle remains by his side, a
nobleman's gorgeous and deadly daughter, who is…well, dead.
Celia claims she’ll champion Ward wherever he goes, even when she thinks his quest is hopeless. He can only hope her pledge comes from her heart, and not because she’s bound to him through his magic.
Celia claims she’ll champion Ward wherever he goes, even when she thinks his quest is hopeless. He can only hope her pledge comes from her heart, and not because she’s bound to him through his magic.
When they enter Dulthyne, they stumble upon a dark power that threatens
the entire town. Ward, with his unreliable necromancy, is determined to help
but finds himself ensnared in the lure of white-hot magic…blood magic he
struggles to resist. But if Celia’s love is a lie, it might just doom his soul
to the dark arts forever.
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Character Profile:
Name: Celia Carlyle
Age: 19
Appearance: thin, wiry with tight corded muscle, long black
hair with a blue sheen, pale icy-blue eyes, pale skin
Likes:
·
a well-crafted blade
·
a good fight
·
a straightforward answer (since those were so
hard to get in her previous occupation)
Dislikes:
·
the fancy, restrictive clothes worn by nobility
(makes it difficult to properly fight)
·
having no control
·
a challenge. All she used to live for was a
good, dangerous challenge, but that was before Ward’s life was on the line.
Background:
The youngest child of three and only daughter of Lord
Carlyle, Celia grew up surrounded by privilege—both legal and illegal. Her
father, the third son of the Duke of Carthelle and second Counselor to the
Prince of Brawenal was also the Dominus of Brawenal’s Gentilica (the head of
all organize crime in the city). With natural agility and martial prowess,
Celia followed in her mother’s footsteps and joined the Assassins’ Guild. She
was a rising star in the organization with plans to take over her father’s
position when he retired. One evening she receives a mysterious note saying
someone is trying to kill her, but before she can find out who sent it or if
there’s any truth in it, she’s woken from a nap by a necromancer, Ward de’Ath,
who claims she’s already dead. This is not how she planned her life to go.
Melanie
has always been drawn to storytelling and can’t remember a time when she wasn’t
creating a story in her head. Her early stories were adventures with fairies
and dragons and sword swinging princesses.
Today
she continues to spin tales of magic in lands near and far, while her cat sits on
the edge of her desk and supervises. When she’s not writing, you can find her pretending
to be other people with her local community theatre groups.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like an awesome trilogy. Off to get a copy of book one right now
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