Pj O'Brien

Absolution: Sanctuary Book 3 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Book 3 of the Sanctuary series, the last of the prosecutions relating to the coup attempt are winding down. Civil liberties are restored and there is a renewed movement to end mandatory marriage and to abolish the monarchy. Master Tehv, the son of the assassinated king, leaves the palace ostensibly to assist at his uncle's training camp for the kinetically uncoordinated. His real reason is to avoid his Little Parents, whose political machinations he blames for his father's death. His cousin, Prince Nor, goes to work in a transportation company after his younger brother is crowned instead of him. He busies himself tracking a mysterious stranger, who is described alternately as a champion for justice and a coldblooded terrorist. Meanwhile, a convicted mass murderer plots one last series of hits from his deathbed. As the palace-born cousins look for love and a new life in the commoner world, a war breaks out in neighboring countries that spills over into Sanctuary.

The Sanctuary series is a set of stories told episodically over the course of ten years. Over time, they were combined into books for easier tracking and distribution. Although background information is repeated periodically throughout the books to help those who haven't read the earlier portions, many find it best to start from the beginning book, "Surviving Sanctuary" and then go on to "Grave-climbing" before beginning this one. Of course, you're always welcome to dive in anyway at any point you wish. Sanctuary is a very welcoming, if imaginary, place. The series itself was dubbed as a speculative ethnology and is set in a culture where alternative ways of looking at things is necessary for survival.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PJ O'Brien
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311921222
• Artikelnr.: 54563885

Autorenporträt

It would not be fully truthful to say that the author was challenged to write a genre-bending mystery after losing an argument with ducks about the inevitability of violence. But it wouldn't be fully false either.

O'Brien, a somewhat optimistic rurally-raised resident of a US city infamous for its violence and hopelessness, decided to test a theory. After inventing a country devoted entirely to fairness and peace, she added characters that had to abide by the framework of their culture. They were given horrors that plague real people and were allowed to respond as they saw fit. They had only to be true to their culture, retain essential elements of modern humanity, and be charming when not dealing with threats that could potentially end the world as they knew it.

After four books, they felt they had fully addressed the most essential questions of suffering, violence, love, and happiness, and still retain their sense of humor. And did they? That's for you and the ducks to decide.