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12 & up)Ī dystopic thriller joins the crowded shelves but doesn't distinguish itself. The mixture of historical detail and magic makes this bodice-ripper another page-turner, if one that's a bit on the subdued side. Missing, however, is the humorous repartee between the twins and their younger brother Charles. Will Pen be able to work with the now-besotted Niall to thwart his mother's plan? Similar in tone and pacing to its predecessor (Pen must again save the young queen), there is enough back story to make this tale stand alone. Lady Keating needs Pen's virginity and magical powers to carry out her plan to kill Queen Victoria and thereby further Niall's position in society. Pen's studies begin to suffer when Niall comes courting, unaware he is acting on orders from his mother, a powerful sorceress. Feeling lonely without Persy, Pen welcomes the attention of Lady Keating and her handsome son, Niall. Now that her twin Persephone and governess Ally are preoccupied with their happy marriages, Pen travels to Ireland to further her study of magic. Doyle's sequel to Bewitching Season (2008) gives Penelope (Pen) Leland center stage. (To read a published essay about this experience, please click here.) He has spent more than 10 of the last 20 years in Vietnam, making his home in such places as Saigon, Hanoi, Mui Ne, and Bien Hoa.ĭavid has also lived in Japan five different times, and has called Sapporo, Akita, Tokyo, Fukui, and Kanazawa home. His earliest experience in Vietnam was as a volunteer teacher in 1994, when he became the first American since the end of the Vietnam War to live and work in Dong Nai province. He has been shuttling between the US, Vietnam, and Japan for all of his adult life.ĭavid has lived and worked in Vietnam seven different times. Nine years and several trips to Asia later he earned his MFA from the University of Arizona where he studied fiction, nonfiction, and playwriting. During his junior year he made his first trip to Asia – a five-month study abroad program in Sapporo, Japan. He attended Earlham College and majored in Japanese Studies. David Joiner was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. I assume representation is rather unequal right here, nevertheless that is the means of any kind of initial- private POVbook Darrow is unforeseeable and also wise and also does not ever before neglect where he stemmed from. 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