2023/111: A Power Unbound — Freya Marske

2023/111: A Power Unbound — Freya Marske

... neither of them were given to trust. Both of them had been twisted up by the plain facts of their existence. The past could turn you into a strip of paper with a single side, so that comfort and vulnerability slid away down invisible channels and couldn't be grasped. [loc. 4436]

Concluding the trilogy begun in A Marvellous Light and continued in A Restless Truth, A Power Unbound focuses on Lord Hawthorn (he of the dead sister and dark past, more familiarly known as Jack Alston) and Alan Ross (journalist, pornographer and revolutionary), and their role in the increasingly urgent hunt for the final component of the Last Contract -- the tripartite physical representation (coin, cup and knife) of a contract with the fae, which makes magic possible. ( Read more... )