false 5659537 9 Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn; the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now, only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage, Moirin possesses such gifts - the ability to summon the twilight and conceal herself, and the skill to coax plants to grow. <BR><BR>Moirin has a secret, too. From childhood onward, she senses the presence of unfamiliar gods in her life; the bright lady, and the man with a seedling cupped in his palm. Raised in the wilderness by her reclusive mother, it isn't until she comes of age that Moirin learns how illustrious, if mixed, her heritage is. The great granddaughter of Alais the Wise, child of the Maghuin Donn, and a cousin of the Cruarch of Alba, Moirin learns her father was a D'Angeline priest dedicated to serving Naamah, goddess of desire. <BR><BR>After Moirin undergoes the rites of adulthood, she finds divine acceptance...on the condition that she fulfill an unknown destiny that lies somewhere beyond the ocean. Or perhaps oceans. Beyond Terre d'Ange where she finds her father, in the far reaches of distant Ch'in, Moirin's skills are a true gift when facing the vengeful plans of an ambitious mage, a noble warrior princess desperate to save her father's throne, and the spirit of a celestial dragon. 5831056 book 24 6 2009 Naamah's Kiss (Kushiel's Legacy, #7) total:508|5:188|4:218|3:82|2:19|1:1| 508 2097 1073 158 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 13:13:21 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 15:02:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 19:05:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 19:05:52 -0700 2009 http://janicu.livejournal.com/81751.html...

Premise: This is the beginning of a new series in the same world as the two Kushiel series, but takes place a few generations later. The heroine is Moirin, who was born into the Maghuin Dhonn, worshippers of a great brown bear, a wild people who ...more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 11:03:15 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 13:44:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 25 06:29:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 06:37:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 14:42:29 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 15:54:41 -0700 2009 Naamah's Kiss is set some 150 years after Carey's remarkable Kushiel trilogies, but the reader who has not read the earlier books can still enjoy this one, I think. In fact, if you attempted to read the Kushiel books and were ill at ease (as I was, initially) with the BDSM content, Moirin's adventu...more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Jul 18 04:01:37 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 15:16:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 10:45:22 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 10:45:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jun 27 22:53:07 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 22:59:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 8 false false Sun May 10 05:28:45 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 06:01:40 -0700 2009
This time, Carey decides to jump forward in time a few generations, so that she can create a new situation, a new protagonist, and explore new parts of the wo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 19:26:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 09:30:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jul 04 08:35:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 17:13:27 -0700 2009 Naamah's Kiss is set generations after the last Kushiel book. When I first heard this, I was a little disappointed. The jump forward in time does make sense. It allows for a "happily ever after" for the first six books and allows for Carey to further explore her world. We are given more...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 07:15:28 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 13:18:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 19:18:08 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 21:43:38 -0700 2009 Just superb; has everything you want in a fantasy - graet characters, superb world building and the prose just flows smoothly; it is probably the best fantasy novel I read for 09 in terms of narrative flow and it is my number 1 genre fantasy so far.

Moirin of the "bear witch"...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 10:08:44 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 13:34:59 -0700 2009 Naamah's Kiss, Jacqueline Carey returns to the world she created in the Kushiel's Legacy series, and introduces a delightful new heroine.

Moirin mac Fainche is a descendant of Alais de la Courcel and a member of the Maghuin Dhonn tribe of Alba. On her father's side, she's D'Angeline, ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 18:12:27 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 15:14:36 -0700 2009
This story starts with a wild girl who is first a child of th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 13:22:21 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 17:59:11 -0700 2009 Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, and Kushiel's Avatar trilogy; it is still a fantastic read. Moirin has an interesting track of character growth. As per normal in many fantasy books she starts out fairly young, but she is also basically a ba...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:42:20 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 05:32:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 07:43:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 09:09:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 08:07:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 08:04:11 -0700 2009 From the dust jacket:
Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn; the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now, only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage...more...]]> 5 0 false true Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 21:31:22 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 13:49:42 -0700 2009 .
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I was delighted to find Jacqueline Carey wrote another book in the Kushiel's Legacy series. My heart ached after the first few chapters, when you discover the characters Jacqueline has embedded into your heart no...more...]]>