From Publishers Weekly
First in the Tide Lords series, this complex saga, like Fallon's earlier Hythrun Chronicles, intertwines several vividly realized plots. One follows Arkady Desean, the Ice Duchess of Lebec and a scholar of ancient Amyranthan lore, as she interrogates Cayal, a hanged man who inexplicably did not die. She soon encounters legends of the immortal Tide Lords who created the human-animal hybrid slaves called the Crasiiβcanines to serve, felines to fight, amphibians to pull watercraftβand a thousand years earlier caused the Cataclysm that nearly destroyed the world. Arkady's husband, Duke Stellan, guards his own deadly secret as he maneuvers through palace intrigues and inter-kingdom clashes. Royal spymaster Declan Hawkes secretly aids renegade Crasii and preserves the Cabal, humanity's only protection from the Tide Lords. With snappy dialogue and deft characterizations, especially of her sympathetically drawn canine Crasii, Fallon neatly pulls the story threads together into a multihued tapestry of myth, deceit and ambition. (May)
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Review
"Fallon begins her latest epic asking the question of how an immortal, tired of immortality, might find his way to death? With her vivid style and snappy dialogue, Fallon embarks on a rollercoaster ride of mortal and immortal machinations, as the ruthless and immoral Tide Lords emerge from a thousand years of hiding into a world where everyone has attributed the stories of their existence to myth. Everyone, that is, but the mysterious and secretive Cabal, who watch and wait in the shadows, searching for a way to protect humanity from the Tide Lordsβ return."-- Nexus on The Immortal Prince
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"Well crafted entertainment."--Kirkus on Harshini
"Readers with a taste for detail and complicated plots will enjoy this story."--VOYA on Wolfblade
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"Fallon sets the stage for another lively fantasy saga full of intriguing characters, smart dialogue and twisty plotting."--Publishers Weekly on Wolfblade
βA warm and intriguing book with all-too-human characters who draw you in more deeply with each page.β--L.E. Modesitt, Jr. on Medalon
"A well-executed fantasy with complex characters and entertaining style."--Kirkus Reviews on Treason Keep
"The battles are fierce, the losses heartrending in Fallon's beautifully created world, whose disparate inhabitants are once again completely convincing, making Harshini a chilling, thrilling conclusion to the trilogy."--Booklist on Harshini
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