![]() ![]() This is a fascinating novel, one that at first glance bears resemblances to Guy Gavriel Kay's classic The Lions of Al-Rassan (particularly the very strong Spanish inspiration) and to George R.R. Unfortunately, whilst this is going on his country is under threat from external enemies and also from internal strife. The Curse of Chalion is a novel about trauma, about a man who has faced serious degradation and danger but lived to tell of it, and afterwards has to find his way back to something approaching normalcy. What happens when your life is taken from you and you are left abused, beaten and broken, and then abruptly returned to your former life? When Iselle and her brother are summoned to the royal court by their brother, the ailing king, Cazaril finds himself in a political nest of vipers, pitted against an old enemy who is very unhappy to see that he has survived, and a curse that may be beyond his abilities to thwart. He is made tutor to Iselle, the sister of the heir to the kingdom, a position initially without power or influence. Returning to his old home of Valenda, he seeks service with the Provincara dy Baocia. ![]() Taken prisoner after a siege, he has been sold into bondage, made a galley-slave and been rescued. Lupe dy Cazaril is a former soldier in the army of Chalion. ![]()
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