Kushiel's Chosen (Kushiel's Legacy)
by Jacqueline Carey
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Author: Jacqueline CareyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-14
ISBN: 0765345048
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
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Book Review: "Kushiel's Chosen" a superior fantasy novel
Summary: 5 Stars
Jacqueline Carey's excellent Kushiel's Chosen is twice as good as its predecessor, Kushiel's Dart. The rise in quality comes not from the fast-paced plot, which is enough to keep you turning pages, but from Ms. Carey's exceptional development of her characters.
The book picks up right from where Kushiel's Dart left off. Phedre decides at once to pursue Melisandre Shahrizai to La Serenissima, the seat of the powerful Stregazza family. However, there is one problem: to do it, she must re-enter Naamah's Service, the sacred prositution of Terre D'Ange. Phedre's decision causes a rift between her and her lover/protector, Joscelin Verreuil. Joscelin, a former Cassiline celibate, is torn between keeping his vow to protect Phedre and dealing with the realities of exactly what Phedre does with her clients.
There is a great more detail about some of these encounters, explicit but elegantly phrased and sometimes humorous. (A scene where Phedre is bound up by a lover who tries, and fails, to interrogate her played beautifully on the fact that Phedre was as far from intimidated as could be.) In the end, all these encounters lead to a staged scene which gets Phedre on her way to La Serenissima to find Melisandre. And once there, Phedre gets caught in an assassination plot that sees her sent to prison, facing death, and undergoing a purification ceremony.
The fun of Kushiel's Chosen is that while there's a romance at heart, Joscelin and Phedre stay true to who they are--at least, as the writer has written them. Phedre doesn't try to shield Joscelin from the consequences of her decision to go back to Naamah's Service; nor does Joscelin attempt to "understand" or excuse Phedre's behavior. Their warfare goes on for nearly half the book, with exchanges that made me wince. Likewise, Melisandre is one of the best villains in fantasy--a dark goddess, seductive, and driven as much by love as she is by ambition. And then there is the Stregazza family, with brothers Marco and Ricciardo fighting for position in the Dogal elections, and Marco's son Severin struggling to win Phedre's heart.
There are more events I could discuss (the Unforgiven, Benedict de la Courcel's marriage), but why give the book away? This review has already given enough of the novel away, and you'll want to savor this book page by page. Kushiel's Chosen is a treasure hunt; get started and enjoy the quest. You'll be happy you did.
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