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This week my choice is:
Mistle Child
Book 2 of The Undertaken Trilogy
by Ari Berk
Release Date: February 12th, 2013
In life, in death: family remains.
Silas Umber has finally come into his own as the Undertaker of
Lichport when a mysterious invitation calls him beyond the marshes to
Arvale, the ancestral manor of the Umbers. There, his extended family
endures, waiting for a living Undertaker to return and preside over the
Door Doom, an archaic rite that grants a terrible power to summon and
bind the dead in judgment.
As Silas assumes the mantle of Janus, the Watcher at the Threshold,
deep below the earth in the catacombs and sunken towers, grim spirits
grow restless at his arrival--hungry for freedom and eager for vengeance
against a family with a long history of harsh judgments. Now, Silas
must right an ancient wrong and accept that even a house of ghosts can
be haunted by its past--for in matters of family, we are who we were.
Delving deeper into the haunting world of ghosts, ancestors, and
eldritch lore, Ari Berk returns to the series that Publisher's Weekly
calls "thought-provoking gothic fantasy," with a style the School Library Journal praises as "reminiscent of the classic gothic works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Shirley Jackson."
I *loved* loveloveloveloveloved Deathwatch and cannot wait for the sequel, Mistle Child.
You can find my review on Deathwatch here:
and you can find my interview with the author here:
