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Talonsister

Talonsister, Book 1

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Talonsister

By: Jen Williams
Narrated by: Jot Davies
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When soldier Leven was transformed into a Herald – a magical killing machine in the Imperium's brutal conquests – her mind was wiped clean. But strange visions still show her glimpses of the ancient and mysterious island of Brittletain. Now, with the war won and the Imperium satisfied, she wants to find out who she really is.

Envoy Kaeto has done a number of important little jobs for the Imperium, most of them nasty, all of them in the shadows. His newest assignment is to escort the bone-crafter Gynid Tyleigh as she travels across the Imperium. But Tyleigh's ambition alarms even Kaeto, and her conviction that she has found a new source of Titan bones, buried deep in the earth, could lead to another, even bloodier war.

Ynis was raised by the griffins and has never seen another human face. She lives wild on Brittletain with her talonsister, T'rook. By choosing not to kill Ynis when she was just a baby, the griffins may have doomed themselves – because the girl's past is coming for her, and it carries a lethal blade...

Longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards Best Novel

©2023 Jen Williams (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing Action & Adventure Dragons & Mythical Creatures Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Mythology Greek Mythology War Ancient Greece

Critic reviews

'An intricate and compelling new tale from one of the great original voices of fantasy. Full of fascinating ideas, engaging characters and magic.' (Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time)
'Talonsister is wonderfully rich and inventive, it takes familiar things and places to make them new and interesting and the tone is perfectly balanced.' (Mike Brooks, author of The God-King Chronicles)
'Dizzyingly inventive and packed with mythologies familiar and strange, Talonsister is Jen Williams at her storytelling best.' (Anna Stephens, author of the Godblind trilogy)
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I would recommend that more readers give Jen Williams a read, I wasn’t disappointed.
Got to the end and immediately bought book two of this series.

A lot of Originality

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