Book Review: Kushiel's Dart
Synopsis: In the land of Terre d Ange, it is said that the blood of angels flows through the people, particularly in the blood of the aristocracy. However, the influence of the divine shows itself in the most unlikely place, in the eyes of a courtesan, Phèdré, who was born to the Night Court. The blood red spot in her eye, said to be the prick of the fallen angel, Kushiel, has marked her as one cursed to feel pain and pleasure as one. When Phèdré is sold into indentured servitude to the nobleman, Anafiel Delaunay, a chain of events involving political intrigue, murder, and mystery opens her to a world of unknown possibilities.
Review: This book is an impressive epic that grabs ones imagination and keeps it held with the decadent and lush descriptions of an alternative medieval France full of tattooed courtesans, glittering masquerades, and all the intrigue one can expect of royal courts. Phèdré shows herself to be a strong and cap
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