### Amazon.com Review Patricia A. McKillip is one of America's greatest fantasy authors. Her best known novels include *Riddle-Master*; World Fantasy Award winner *The Forgotten Beasts of Eld*; World Fantasy Award and Mythopoeic Award winner *Ombria in Shadow*; and *In the Forests of Serre*. Like i
Alphabet of Thorn
β Scribed by Patricia A McKillip
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Year
- 2013;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Nepenthe, an orphan who has been raised by the librarians of the Royal Library of Raine, becomes obsessed with deciphering a supposedly untranslatable book brought to the palace by a young mage, not realizing that the words and her fate are entwined with that of the newly crowned, fourteen-year-old queen.
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