Maledicte
by Lane Robins
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Author: Lane RobinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-29
ISBN: 034549573X
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: "blood-red wine in a crystal goblet"
Summary: 4 Stars
There have been several reviews of this book that make comparisons to Jacqueline Carey. One of them says _Maledicte_ is a cheap imitation, and the other that _Maledicte_ is far too good to be compared with Carey's work. I'm not enough of a literary critic to tell you who is the better writer, Carey or Robins, but I will say that I'm not surprised the comparisons are cropping up. I'm a big fan of Carey and I'm always looking for beautiful, lush, sensual dark fantasy that scratches the same literary "itch." I rarely find it. Here, I've found it.
(Though I can also see the resonances with _Swordspoint_.)
_Maledicte_ tells the story of a young woman from the slums, Miranda, whose sweetheart is stolen away by his noble father. Miranda swears revenge upon the nobleman and disguises herself as a man in order to move more freely through the country's aristocracy.
As Miranda, now Maledicte, pursues retribution, Lane Robins does a great job of showing how Maledicte's quest begins to grow in complexity. Her moral and ethical qualms surface just as her aims begin to require more blood and as her choices become more irrevocable. Meanwhile, her love life also grows tangled; her lover Janus is not quite as she remembers him, and her friend and servant, Gilly (who believes her to be a man) falls for her. Also excellent is the way Maledicte always holds our sympathy, nearly losing it from time to time but always keeping it in the end, despite her violent acts.
This is a lush fever-dream of a novel and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the intermarriage of arch, beautiful prose and visceral themes.
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