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    Ironfoot: The Enchanter General, Book One

    By Dave Duncan

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    Medieval magic, murder, and mayhem!

    It is 1164, and for a hundred years England has been ruled by the Normans. A young Saxon boy named Durwin, crippled by a childhood accident, had caught the eye of a Norman sage teaching at a rural school of magic. Realizing that the boy had promise, Durwin was made stable boy, and eventually allowed to attend classes. 

    Now twenty, Durwin is proficient enough that he is assigned to teach, but the other sages refuse to promote him and he is hassled by the Norman juniors for his disability. But those troubles turn out to be the least of his worries when he manages to corrects errors in an ancient corrupted spell, which promptly prophesies murder.

    Sure enough, word soon reaches the school that one of the local count’s house sage has died, perhaps slain by black magic. Durwin is whisked away to the family’s castle, only to find that one death was only the beginning. The young sage quickly learns of a dizzying plot to assassinate King Henry. Dropped into the middle of the complex politics of England’s royal courts, can Durwin stop them in time?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateOct 10, 2017
    ISBN9781597806343
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    Dave Duncan

    Dave Duncan is an award-winning author whose fantasy trilogy, The Seventh Sword, is considered a sword-and-sorcery classic. His numerous novels include three Tales of the King's Blades -- The Gilded Chain, Lord of the Fire Lands, and Sky of Swords; Paragon Lost, a previous Chronicle of the King’s Blades; Strings, Hero; the popular tetralogies A Man of His Word and A Handful of Men; and the remarkable, critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy The Great Game.

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      Well this book was a surprise to me -- I like medieval fiction, I like mysteries, I like magic, so you'd think I'd be all over it, but that combination is so rarely done well, and so rarely believable. This book is A on all counts. Believable reconstruction of medieval life, of the tensions between the Normans and the British peasantry, of the mistrust of people with physical impairments, of the time period all across the board. Duncan has also created a believable magical system within that framework (be still my heart) and a compelling main character with a reasonable sleuthing method to boot. I will be watching this series with bated breath, eager for as much as he cares to write.

      Advanced reader's copy provided by Edelweiss.