Sarah Monette
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 477 pages Rating: 3.63 | 4001 Users | 384 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths #1) |
| Author | : | Sarah Monette |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 477 pages |
| Published | : | June 27th 2006 by Ace (first published June 27th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. LGBT. Fiction. Romance. M M Romance |
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Mélusine — a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption — and destinies lost and found.Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But his aristocratic peers don't know his dark past — how his abusive former master enslaved him, body and soul, and trained him to pass as a nobleman. Within the walls of the Mirador — Melusine's citadel of power and wizardry — Felix believed he was safe. He was wrong. Now, the horrors of his previous life have found him and threaten to destroy all he has since become.
Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. Raised as a kept-thief and trained as an assassin, he escaped his Keeper long ago and lives on his own as a cat burglar. But now he has been caught by a mysterious foreign wizard using a powerful calling charm. And yet the wizard was looking not for Mildmay — but for Felix Harrowgate.
Thrown together by fate, the broken wizard Felix and the wanted killer Mildmay journey far from Melusine through lands thick with strange magics and terrible demons of darkness. But it is the shocking secret from their pasts, linking them inexorably together, that will either save them, or destroy them.
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| Original Title: | Mélusine |
| ISBN: | 0441014178 (ISBN13: 9780441014170) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Doctrine of Labyrinths #1 |
| Characters: | Felix Harrowgate, Mildmay the Fox |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2006), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (2005) |
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Ratings: 3.63 From 4001 Users | 384 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths #1)
Mélusine suffers from two narrators: Felix Harrowgate and Mildmay the Fox. I say suffers because Monette switches between the two perspectives more frequently than Bill Nye drops mad science truth. Each chapter is about thirty or fifty pages in this paperback edition, but perspective can happen as often as once every page. Sometimes the characters barely get a few paragraphs in before Monette switches to the other narrator. Consequently, instead of feeling like Im watching two separate storiesRead while traveling. I didn't have a good reading environment for enjoying this until midway through, and then I was hooked. I need to reread the first half at least, though. I have a feeling I missed some important details....Okay, I've reread enough to write a coherent review.Mélusine was a much more intense, disturbing, and violent book than I was prepared for, and so reading it was in some places extremely disturbing. But if you don't get squicked by rape, torture, mindfucks, or insanity,
I am reviewing a DTB version.Wow! That was the longest prologue I've ever read!Now I can go back to page 1 and start enjoying the book.Many reviews that mention re-reads make sense now.*****Few thoughts on the book, the writing, the characters, the shenanigans. No spoilers, just want to keep my outrage contained in the spoiler tags.(view spoiler)[Tho I like it when authors dump you right in the middle of things and you have to start running the moment you hit the ground, this was not the case. I
Mélusine suffers from two narrators: Felix Harrowgate and Mildmay the Fox. I say suffers because Monette switches between the two perspectives more frequently than Bill Nye drops mad science truth. Each chapter is about thirty or fifty pages in this paperback edition, but perspective can happen as often as once every page. Sometimes the characters barely get a few paragraphs in before Monette switches to the other narrator. Consequently, instead of feeling like Im watching two separate stories
I haven't been reading nearly as much Fantasy as I used to (there was a time when it was ALL I'd read, excluding books for school or uni), but I have quite a few (understatement) on my shelves, unread. This one was recommended by a friend who had several sleepless nights in a row while she tore through all four books. Hard to ignore a rec like that! I know people have complaints about this book, but I felt like my faith in Fantasy was rekindled after reading this.In the city of Mélusine, in
This review seems full of nothing but criticism, so I'll frame it by saying that I didn't hate it, I actually enjoyed it, though you might not figure out why. Monette's involvement in recent blog affairs, plus her online present and most peeps in my environs feeling they have to read this book, made me hesitant to list it at all.Lots of the genre-usual invented names right from the start, perhaps not overly much compared to other fantasy books, but still more than I think necessary, ever. The
Dark, tortured fantasy fans, rejoice! Sarah Monette is here for you with a stellar new world, a wonderfully academic vision of magic (lots of different schools of thought, all of which think the others are nuts), obnoxious aristocrats, thieves, and two compelling protagonists who are destined to have a long, volatile, satisfying relationship.Felix Harrowgate was plucked from the slums by Malkar, a powerful wizard (and an incredible bastard) and trained to pass as an aristocrat. On the night his
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