Greetings, Hello! I hope everyone is well, for me I'm ok. I came just to praise and share Jacqueline Carey and her books, the Kushiel's Legacy trilogy! soo... here is THE BOOK! and my review! 
Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen and Kushiel's Avatar. I just finished reading the trilogy of the "Kushiel's Legacy" It is awesome!!!! This is The Book to read! It moved me, full of excitement and surprise, fear and disgust as well as joy and enlightenment. The story is seen through the eyes of Phedre. When she was a child, Phedre was sold to a mysterious nobleman who brought her up and trained her to be a courtesan and a spy. Phedre is also marked with Kushiel's Dart, a gift in which she feels pleasure in pain and for the rest of the story... all I can say is WOW! what a heroine! Jacqueline Carey is a gifted writer. Thank you for writing it! The beautiful world she created I couldn't bare to leave, the truly special characters that will stay with me and the most amazing journeys they took I will think of and share with others. The journey made me laugh, cry, scared, smile, fearful, hopeful and fall in love. The themes of courage and hope, sacrifice and perseverance, hatred and passion, kindness and cruelty, learning and understanding, family and friendship, humanity and identity, will and desire, honour and betrayal, strength and weakness, consensuality and personal boundaries, national identity and pride, prejudice, mercy and personal responsibility, balance and destiny, faith and beliefs, redemption and suffering, compassion, atonement and endurance, duality and loyalty, duty and integrity, trust and most of all Love, the nature of love and all the many forms of love! They will all stay with me. I'll miss it. It has a very unique story and maybe edgy, dark and adult for others. She writes beautifully and sexy, with a wealth of sensual prose and just a very high standard of writing. It has all things you could want in a book, truly an epic story... there is adventure and swordplay, mystery and wars, power and joys, intrigue and twists, sex and religion, humour and politics, personal growth and loss, a love story and beauty, action-packed and romance, cultures and knowledge, magic and spirituality. It has kings and princesses, courtesans, warriors, betrayals and secrets, traitors and lovers, history, priestess, sailors and pirates, poetess and slaves, friends and family, myth and Gods, angels and dark beings, fashion, food and lifestyles, palace, prisons, temples and homes, monsters and fortune-tellers, saviours and conquerors, scholars, servants and armies, travel, councils, trades and study, puzzles and curses, victims, villains, heroes and heroines... I've said too much but its okay... get hooked! Its very deserving of all the praise it received and I don't want to give anything else away, their connections and lives... You'll love it! I better say goodbye before i reveal anything more... lol. It was a pleasure reading these amazing books!!! I recommend everyone to read it, you will not be disappointed. This is my favourite books!!!!! It's original, captivating, intelligent, luxurious, erotic, provocative, elegant, sophisticated, remarkable and beautiful. I love it. Enjoy! Love as thou wilt. Farewell, Arvin � Stephen Speaks - Passenger Seat (i really love this song!) vote! for what's going to be in TLC's Greatest Hits Album. 
ReviewsPRAISE FOR KUSHIEL'S DART: "Making a marvelous debut, Carey spins a breathtaking epic starring an unflinching yet poignantly vulnerable heroine." ?Booklist starred review "This brilliant and daring debut, set in a skewed Renaissance world (people worship Jesus-like Blessed Elua" but also demigods), catapults Carey immediately into the top rank of fantasy novelists.... an assured and magnificent book that will appeal to both male and female readers." ?Publishers Weekly starred review "Superbly detailed, fascinatingly textured, and sometimes unbearably intense: a resonant, deeply satisfying, and altogether remarkable debut?but emphatically, not for squeamish or judgmental readers." ?Kirkus Review pointer review "With her provocative debut novel, Jacqueline Carey introduces herself as an extraordinarily talented writer.... Ms. Carey weaves an exquisite tapestry of politics, intrigue, history, magic, desire and fate into a breathtaking epic that will captivate readers." ?Romantic Times (4� , Top Pick, Gold Medal Review) "This first novel is compulsively readable?Carey dismantles standard notions of both magic and morality to produce a long, complex saga worthy of the field's best writer on such a scale, George R.R. Martin. It's an astonishing debut." ?Locus Magazine "Jacqueline Carey astonishes with her first novel, the sexy and sometimes shocking fantasy Kushiel's Dart...if you don't mind your eyeballs popping out every couple of chapters, this is a swell tale." ?Detroit Free Press "This novel is, to put it plainly, gorgeous.... Carey has created a story of depth and richness that begs to be savored and read slowly." ?The Davis Enterprise "One would always hope to make a good impression with one's first novel. Boy, does Jacqueline Carey ever. Her remarkable fantasy debut, Kushiel's Dart, the first in a three-book series, delivers a few good shocks-aw heck, make that full-on blows to the solar plexus." ?Harrisburg Patriot-News "Kushiel's Dart has been written with the intrigue of Shakespeare's plays of palace politics, the cold, unerring truth of Machiavelli, the epic grandeur of Homer and the well spun fabric of fantasy I've not seen woven so artfully since I first turned the pages of Tolkien." ?The Paper, West Michigan's Independent News Source AUTHOR QUOTES ON KUSHIEL'S DART: "A very sophisticated fantasy, intricately plotted and a fascinating read." ?Robert Jordan, New York Times bestselling author of the Wheel of Time series "Overall, a powerful narrative, with savage action balanced by exquisite characterization. The best fantasy I've read in years." ?Piers Anthony, New York Times bestselling author of The Dastard "Perhaps once in a decade, if you are fortunate, you discover a debut novel as intoxicating as Jacqueline Carey's Kushiels Dart. Part reimagined history; this sumptuous, spellbinding fantasy is kaleidoscopic in breadth, intimate in detail. It is sure to be read and talked about for years to come." ?Eric Lustbader, New York Times bestselling author of The Ring of Five Dragons "Jacqueline Carey's Ph�dre is a strong, fascinating heroine whose voice stays with you long after the book is done, and whose disturbing sexuality drives her story and illuminates her alternate world. With its rich, convincing mix of invented culture, religion, and politics, Kushiel's Dart is as delicious as it is unsettling; you'll hate to put it down." ?Emma Bull, author of War for the Oaks "Kushiel's Dart is a thing of wonder and beauty. Jacqueline Carey is so wonderfully well-polished, so delightfully audacious, that she fulfills and transcends the whole Fantasy of Manner genre...If I had to compare it to something, I'd point to Dorothy Dunnett's books (except with a female protagonist!)." ?Rosemary Edghill, author of Bell, Book, and Murder "Kushiel's Dart takes fantasy into shadowy exotic corners it rarely dares to tread. The standard of the writing is so high; it's hard to believe this is a first novel. There are some genuinely shocking moments, but even the darkest of them are written with skillful elegance. The characters are captivating and the plot cleverly convoluted. I read many new writers, but few of them capture my attention as Jacqueline Carey has. A writer to watch?as the clich� goes?but more importantly a writer to read." ?Storm Constantine, author of Sea Dragon Heir PRAISE FOR KUSHIEL'S CHOSEN: "Carey's second extravagantly sensuous novel fulfills every promise made by Kushiel's Dart. There is seemingly something for everyone here: a great love story, intense spirituality, high eroticism, and lots of adventure, intrigue, and swordplay." ?Booklist starred review "From the first page I shivered?with anticipation, with delight, with awe that a new author could best her breathtaking debut novel. Ms. Carey's alternate Renaissance period is perfection. Can it be read as a stand-alone? Yes, but why miss out on Ph�dre's earlier days, in Kushiel's Dart." ?Romantic Times (4� , Top Pick, Gold Medal Review) "Carey's sensual, often erotically charged prose, reminiscent of the best efforts of Tanith Lee and Anne Rice, adds an unmistakably sexual tension to an already tautly plotted tale of conspiracy, intrigue, passion, and, ultimately, love. Highly recommended for a mature fantasy audience, this title belongs in most libraries." ?Library Journal "Continuation of Carey's megasized fantasy?each volume, commendably, self-contained?whose setting is an alternate medieval Europe of rare depth and assurance . . . [A]nother captivating saga of powerful women, tormented men, strange gods, sublime sex, and vile treachery." ?Kirkus Reviews "Carey is adept at bringing both her exotic settings and vast cast of characters fully to life." ?Publishers Weekly "Carey has not lost her capacity to surprise: sequel Kushiel's Chosen is nearly as long and just as absorbing, with settings and concerns different enough to represent a new stage in its heroine's life, rather than just Episode 2 . . . Kushiel's Chosen leaves enough loose ends to ensure that another volume will follow?and just as with a masterful series by Martin, Wolfe, or Crowley, that's cause for celebration." ?Locus Magazine "This sequel to Kushiel's Dart is another intricate and?satisfying tale of dark magic, court intrigue, good versus evil?" ?Science Fiction Chronicle "Carey is cementing her place as an outstanding fantasy writer and Ph�dre is developing into one of the genre's most memorable characters." ?The Patriot-News "Kushiel's Chosen is an elegant, sweeping book . . . it's an epic alternate historical fantasy with magic and high intrigue. An ambitious, artistic, sensual tale . . .powerful, elegant, and evocative." ?Green Man Review PRAISE FOR KUSHIEL'S AVATAR: "The promise of Kushiel's Dart (2001), the first volume of Carey's immense trilogy set in a skewed Renaissance world, is more than realized in this splendid conclusion . . . Effortlessly rich in adventurous incident, with a huge cast of well-defined characters, this poignant and robust story will appeal to both fantasy lovers and fans of erotic romance." -Publishers Weekly starred review "Carey's lush, sensuous prose again makes her heroine's story a savory feast for mind and heart." -Booklist starred review "A rousing finale to an altogether captivating saga." -Kirkus Reviews Now a New York Times bestseller! FANTASY ESSAYby Jacqueline Carey Historical fantasy offers a unique reward. There is an inexpressible pleasure in examining the vast canvas of history and reworking it in broad strokes, of weaving together the threads of what-might-have-been and what-never-was to create the world anew out of whole cloth. If the process succeeds, the end result is seamless. Being possessed of endless curiosity and a deep, abiding fascination with history, culture and myth, I love doing the research needed to ground my work in tangible reality. And as a fantasy writer, I have an equal love for the process of forgetting, of allowing myself to recreate the world. And at the heart of it, always, lies a story. In no other genre does story occupy the place of precedence as it does in fantasy. All fantasy derives its roots from the oldest tales told by humankind, the myths and legends and fables that inspire wonder, awe, despair and passion, that teach us about justice, courage and compassion. These are the stories the earliest poets sang. These are the archetypes that haunt our collective unconscious. The challenge lies in making these familiar elements one's own and creating them anew, breathing fresh life into them. I seek to do this by incorporating aspects seldom dared before, by writing prose that speaks to my deep love of literature, by crafting vivid and memorable characters. Is fantasy relevant in a postmodern society? Yes. The old, old truths endure. A hero or heroine faces an insurmountable challenge and prevails through strength of will, through courage, through self-sacrifice and love. Thus are born the stories that shape our dreams. Tor� and Forge� are trademarks of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, and are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. up.top | Godspeed - SIN LOVE X ART - |