title: Firethorn: A Novel
author:  Sarah Micklem 
description: A sweeping adventure saga as mystical as it is rawthis hypnotic tale of passion and survival will resonate with sophisticated readers of both sexes. <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review<br /><br />A great piece of gritty, feminist fiction, distinguished by a heroine whose vulnerabilities and fresh voice as narrator make her easy to love. <i>Booklist</i>, starred review<br /><br />Gritty, sinewy, exceptionally well researched, and highly impressive. <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br /><br />Engrossing, suspenseful and uncompromising, this is a novel that sets a great story into motion, leaving readers eager for the next chapter.Its story is so complex and compelling that it will seduce even reluctant readers.<i>SciFi Weekly</i>, A- pick<br /><br /> Expect the unexpected may sound like a stale clich, but applied to the future volumes of this trilogy, and the future career of Sarah Micklem, it becomes both a lure and a promise.<i>Locus,</i> New &amp; Notable Book<br /><br />A fully realized world, full of grit and beauty, hungers of every kind, and gods who are either remote or meddlesome. She takes the time to let relationships develop and events unfold, giving us the sense of having lived and loved our way through Firethorns world. Micklem makes a worthy bid to be ranked with Robin Hobb, Mary Renault, and George R. R. Martin as a brilliant creator of realistic, character-centered fantasy. My only complaint is that the second book isnt out yet.Orson Scott Card, author of <i>Enders Game<br /><br /></i>This is a stark and splendid novel. But the most astonishing thing about it is the suppleness of the stylealmost no one writes a first novel this graceful. I look forward to whatever she does next.Robin McKinley, author of <i>Sunshine</i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>
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  FrostFire
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Daughter of the Flames [2]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Zoe Marriott
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Walker Books Ltd. (2012)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A literary and compelling story about war, revenge and first love from a
  
  
  talented fantasy writer.
  
  
  Seventeen-year-old Frost has left her homeland to travel to the neighbouring
  
  
  country of Ruan in the hope of finding the Goddess in the Fire, a deity she
  
  
  believes will rid her of the curse that has plagued her all her life. If
  anyone
  
  
  causes Frost to bleed, a wolf demon, a god of the Other, takes over her body.
  
  
  While in this berserker rag