Charlie ([info]ccfinlay) wrote,
@ 2007-11-03 15:34:00
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Just a quick post from WFC...
to enthusiastically recommend Nathalie Mallet's debut novel The Princes of the Golden Cage.

This fantasy is set is a world of sultans and sorcerers, jinn and efreet. Prince Amir, with a hundred other sons of the sultan, is kept prisoner in a palace where intrigue, murder, and poison are the least of their troubles -- a cursed spirit hunts the princes down, killing one after another. The only people Amir can turn to for help are the same ones who are most likely to kill him. Even if Amir can survive, he will lose the woman he loves.

I started reading it this morning, for a break after breakfast and writing, and I couldn't put it down until I was finished. It was fun, fresh, and fast-paced. An impressive book, not just a great debut.

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[info]lonfiction
2007-11-05 12:31 am UTC (link)
That does look like a great read! I came home with a stack of books heavy enough to cause scoliosis.

Had no idea you were there, or I would have sought you out to say hello. I'm moving out Wright-Patt way early next year, or so the powers-that-be tell me, and look forward to plugging in to the Buckeye writing scene. Hope to have another chance to meet you face to face before too long.


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[info]ccfinlay
2007-11-13 04:13 pm UTC (link)
Hey, Lon, I saw you read at the open mike poetry thing. I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to talk more, but we'll fix that next year.

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[info]atheilen
2007-11-07 01:45 am UTC (link)
I'm reading it now, and enjoying it a lot. Nathalie's great in person, too--she's in my writer's group back home.

*misses writer's group back home*

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[info]ccfinlay
2007-11-13 04:14 pm UTC (link)
I saw Nathalie at one of the parties and was able to say, "Hey, I just read your book -- it was great!" Always a cool thing when you haven't met the author before and it's their first book.

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