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Seer's Blood
By: Doranna Durgin | Other books by Doranna Durgin
Published By: Doranna Durgin
Published: Jun 23, 2011
ISBN # 9781452478579
Published By: Doranna Durgin
Published: Jun 23, 2011
ISBN # 9781452478579
Word Count: 100,090
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Available in: Epub, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket (.mobi), Palm DOC/iSolo, Adobe Acrobat, Rocket
Categories: Sci-fi/Fantasy Fantasy Science Fiction & Fantasy
Description
SEER'S BLOOD is an Appalachia-based coming of age fantasy in which a threatened community rediscovers its lost roots--and its magic--in the grit of an outcast girl, the heart of a stranger, and the loyalty of his hounds.Extended description:
"Doranna Durgin has been quietly turning out low key but very intriguing fantasy novels, of which this is the newest and in many ways the best."
--SF Chronicle
When Blaine Kendricks discovers strangers in Shadow Hollers, she thinks they've come to trade. She couldn't be more wrong.
When Dacey Childers comes to Shadow Hollers, Blaine's family thinks he's there to hunt game. They couldn't be more wrong.
When the Annekteh come to Shadow Hollers, they think the isolated community living there has no way to resist their invasion.
They're pretty much right on target.
But the last man of the lost seer's blood has returned, and is about to draw Blaine into his magic, his adventure...and the most dangerous hunt she could ever imagine.
"With this book, Doranna Durgin displays her customary precision in plot (tangled yet plausible, with tension that fairly hums from the page), setting (richly rendered and full of fresh, original details that truly delight), and characterization (thoughtful, layered, and well able to drive the plot).... Seer's Blood is low fantasy at its very best, showing how great events affect people on a small scale."
--Hypatia's Hoard
"SEER'S BLOOD is a fast-paced magical adventure. Doranna Durgin imbues her characters with heart and soul, making the reader care about them in ways that are rare in fiction."
--Alan Meitlowski, BookHound
"The author creates high adventure with a subtle touch of romance here. Durgin's writing is full of mountain flavor, and her characters, both human and canine, are strong and clear.... This is an intense story that should appeal to...fantasy fans."
--VOYA
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Excerpt:
Steeling herself, Blaine crept in above the camp, heading for the clump of rhododendrons with last year's limp, dead-looking leaves hanging down and looking like wept tears. Moving with painful slowness, glad for her dull brown clothes and the perpetual dampness of late spring leaf-cover on the ground, she finally got close enough to take a good look at the strangers. So many of them!Three times as many as the last time she had been here. And not one of them had come to talk to her daddy, head of the closest homestead to their camp.
Most of the men were just waking. Only a few were up,crouching to stir faded fires into flame. Hunkered in above the slight scoop in the terrain that held the camp, Blaine made herself very still while her gaze skipped over the normal camp activities and settled in on the flurry of movement just below her.
It took a moment to sort out the details, to realize what she saw—that the lump on the ground between four of the strangers was a man, that the funny noise was his choked cry of pain.
That the man was Dacey.
She gasped; she couldn't help it. Almost immediately she realized the danger she had put herself in with that faint sound—but the strangers were too busy with Dacey to note it. Tied at the wrists and ankles and perched haphazardly against a rotted-out sycamore, he answered their murmured questions with a single shake of his head, sending his untrimmed bangs into his eyes. Blaine winced as one of the men backhanded him, though it clearly wasn't the first time. The trickle of blood dripping down his chin followed a path already forged, and his face held a storybook of bruises.
Not strangers passing through. Not here for trade. Oh, no.
Seer's Blood
By: Doranna Durgin
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