The crack at the heart of everything

Fiona Fenn

Book - 2024

Orpheus can't believe it's come to this. After helping his childhood friend conquer the realm by raising an army of hell-beasts, the befuddled dark sorcerer finds himself banished when the price of his magic endangers the palace. Isolated and betrayed, the feared spellcaster isn't exactly thrilled when his irritating and handsome rival keeps stepping between him and certain doom.

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Subjects
Genres
Fantasy fiction
Queer fiction
Novels
Published
Parrish, FL : Tiny Fox Press [2024]
Language
English
Main Author
Fiona Fenn (author)
Physical Description
330 pages : map ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781946501714
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Fenn charms in her debut romantasy, the first in a series. Dark sorcerer Orpheus is banished from former friend and current empress Lore's court after a piece of magic saddles him with a curse that has "hell beasts" continually attempting to murder him. Surprisingly, he is accompanied in his departure by his court rival, Fenrir Rawkner, a brawny, fearless soldier who has all the girls drooling over him. It's perhaps too quickly that Orpheus's evil villain energy dissipates and Fenrir's adversarial tendencies turn flirtatious, but the men still make an enticing couple as they set out to find a way to reverse Orpheus's curse. Their quest contains much heroic swashbuckling, mostly on Fenrir's part, alongside internal turmoil and shocking revelations, mostly on Orpheus's. The moral rectitude at times toes the line of preachiness, and readers looking to Orpheus for true antihero vibes ought to look elsewhere. Still, Fenn conjures an intricate and enthralling magical world for readers to sink their teeth into. This is a promising start. (Nov.)

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