Forgotten Truth

✍ Scribed by Cook, Dawn

• Book ID: 106872254
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 256 KB
• Series: Truth 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780441011179

✦ Synopsis

Alissa is the only student living in the Hold, learning a millennium's worth of magic from the last surviving Master. Even shapeshifting to her dragon-like raku form is becoming second nature. But when a spell goes awry, Alissa is transported back four centuries to an era when the Hold and its city thrive with magic students and their tutors. Separated from the man she loves by four hundred years, Alissa's distress and confusion are causing her to lose control of her shapeshifting. If she can't return to her own time, Aliss will be permanently transformed into her bestial form—with no memory of her human life...

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Apt and eager Alissa is the only student of the last surviving master of magic. She easily shifts from human to raku, or beast counterpart, and has learned many advanced magics on her own. One afternoon, a tiny miscalculation sends her back in time 400 years within the Hold in which she lives. Now it is peopled by names and faces from stories the master has told of his and the Hold's history. As Alissa and a new, young teacher search for how to send her back, another problem arises: the primal living force behind her raku form is surfacing more often and without summoning. It is just a matter of time before Alissa will be overcome. Her transformation to raku will be permanent. It will be as if she had never existed. Cook's solid third novel about Alissa (after First Truth and Hidden Truth , both 2002) stands very well alone, showing as it does how many characters who exist in both times have grown and changed--or haven't. Paula Luedtke
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Review

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