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Title: DELIGHTFULLY DIFFERENT
Review: Ms. Mckillip has written a delightful little story weaving into one tapestry magic, love, war and conquest. I say little story because it only took me a couple of hours to read it, but this isn?t reflecting on the size of the volume but more on my inability to put it down once I started. I found it impossible to drag myself away from Nepenthe, an orphaned translator in the royal library, Bourne, her magician apprentice lover and the young queen Tessera, for whom the thorns mean the end of her reign and possibly her life.While not an epic by any means ALPHABET OF THORN is a darn good story, well written and rich in characters and character development. Marvels of marvels it?s also a single volume novel so you won?t be gritting your teeth waiting for the next installment.All in all I have to say I liked it, a lot.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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