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The thing I hate about my favorite authors is that it always feels like it takes them forever to get a book out. I swear to God, it’s not just my imagination that Magan Whalen Turner takes longer than most. She’s also just about my favorite. Fate, I think.
With Hamiathes’ Gift destroyed, the king of Sounis has settled for marriage to a cousin of the queen of Eddis instead of the queen herself. Suddenly, the king’s nephew, Sophos, finds himself in the precarious position of waiting for the birth of the child who would make him no longer the heir to the throne. But as the king’s barons ferment rebellion, Sophos is still a valuable political pawn, and soon with the help of a false friend, the barons kill the unsuspecting Sophos’ family and kidnap him to make him a puppet king. Now he must win his way free to seak the aid his friend, Eugenides, now king of Attolia, and to the queen of Eddis, his beloved Helen. And if he can do all that, he must then win back his throne and learn how to be a king.
( Her chin up, Attolia said, “You think I am overly harsh. You inherited your throne free and clear. And you” -she turned to her husband- “took one ready-made. Sophos has little in common with either of you.” )
What impresses me most about Turner as a writer is that every time I go back to pick apart what makes her books work so well, I end up getting sucked back into the story, and reading them just to read them.
With Hamiathes’ Gift destroyed, the king of Sounis has settled for marriage to a cousin of the queen of Eddis instead of the queen herself. Suddenly, the king’s nephew, Sophos, finds himself in the precarious position of waiting for the birth of the child who would make him no longer the heir to the throne. But as the king’s barons ferment rebellion, Sophos is still a valuable political pawn, and soon with the help of a false friend, the barons kill the unsuspecting Sophos’ family and kidnap him to make him a puppet king. Now he must win his way free to seak the aid his friend, Eugenides, now king of Attolia, and to the queen of Eddis, his beloved Helen. And if he can do all that, he must then win back his throne and learn how to be a king.
( Her chin up, Attolia said, “You think I am overly harsh. You inherited your throne free and clear. And you” -she turned to her husband- “took one ready-made. Sophos has little in common with either of you.” )
What impresses me most about Turner as a writer is that every time I go back to pick apart what makes her books work so well, I end up getting sucked back into the story, and reading them just to read them.
