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Wheel of the Infinite

Written by: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
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Every year in the great Temple City of Duvalpore, the image of the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure another year of peace and harmony for the Celestial Empire. Every hundred years the sacred rite takes on added significance. For it is then that the very fabric of the world must be rewoven. Linked by the mystic energies of the Infinite, the Wheel and world are one. Should the holy image be marred, the world will suffer a similar injury. But a black storm is spreading across the Wheel. Every night the Voices of the Ancestors - the Wheel's constructors and caretakers - brush the darkness away and repair the damage with brightly colored sands and potent magic. Each morning the storm reappears, bigger and darker than before, unraveling the beautiful and orderly patterns. With chaos in the wind, a woman with a shadowy past has returned to Duvalpore.

A murderer and traitor - an exile disgraced, hated, and feared, and haunted by her own guilty conscience - Maskelle has been summoned back to help put the world right. Once she was the most revered of the Voices, until cursed by her own actions. Now, in the company of Rian - a skilled and dangerously alluring swordsman - she must confront dread enemies old and new and a cold, stalking malevolence unlike any she has ever encountered.

©2000 Martha Wells (P)2013 Tantor
Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Classics

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"Superior fantasy work from one of the best in the field." (Kirkus Starred Review)

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Intriguing Fantasy

This took directions I wasn't expecting. Sometimes the plot dragged on but ultimately this served as an example of how to do romance properly. The longing, concern, trust and clashing personalities between our protagonists works excellently. While the bad guys were kind of predictable, almost everyone had a full character arc and the world building was pretty cool. I'm glad I found this, though I don't think it'll be on my top ten list.

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