2023/016: The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul — Victoria Goddard

2023/016: The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul — Victoria Goddard

“There have been few things I wanted I did not want to earn... I could have wished for my friends, to find them … but wishes are dangerous, Elena. One must be careful they do not come too true. But the possibility of a wish, now, that is a fine and splendid thing.” [loc. 2433]

This is the second in the 'Red Company Reformed' series, set in Victoria Goddard's 'Nine Worlds' universe: though it's a direct sequel to The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, it doesn't start where that novel left off, but rather some time before, when Pali Avramapul -- also known as Domina Black, a professor of Late Astandalan History at University of Stoneybridge -- sets off on a journey to Solaara to do some research and to meet the Last Emperor, Artorin Damara. ( Read more... )