![]() ![]() ![]() WINtER BE MY SHIELD will take you to an unforgiving place, but you won't want to leave it. 'Unlikely heroes, villains you will cheer for, and cold that eats your bones. ![]() While I did enjoy the story, this book was rather chill, for lack of a better word. ![]() Original, dramatic and unputdownable, WINtER BE MY SHIELD is the first in an epic fantasy trilogy from brilliant new Australian talent Jo Spurrier. A Curse of Ash and Embers is a soft-spoken and slow-paced story set in a world where feared witches live in cottages with peculiar gardens, and monsters stuffed with straw and metal roam the forests. Sierra is forced to decide what price she is willing to pay for her freedom and her life. But Rasten is not the only enemy hunting them in the frozen north and as Sierra's new allies struggle to identify friend from foe, Rasten approaches her with a plan to kill the master they both abhor. But the old witch is dead now, and somehow its Elodies job to clean up the mess. then she falls in with dangerous company: the fugitive Prince Cammarian and his crippled foster-brother, Isidro. Some people knit socks by the fire at night. Enslaved by the king's torturer, Sierra escapes, barely keeping ahead of Rasten, the man sent to hunt her down. Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift - she raises power from the suffering of others. A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author. ![]()
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