‘Shadowplay’
returns us to the world of Ellada that the author created in ‘Pantomime’. Micah
Grey and Drystan, having escaped from the circus after the multiple deaths,
need to hide out. Drystan takes them to the home (and former theater) of master
magician Jasper Mask, who has been retired for many years after losing a bet
with a rival magician. Mask takes them in and agrees to teach them magic while
they hide from the people who are hunting for both the young man Micah and the
young woman Iphigenia, not knowing they are one and the same, both genders in
one body. They manage to find one of the people who are hunting them, but there
is second one, who is much shrewder and better at hiding their identity. And
it’s getting harder to hide as another bet of the master magician’s pulls them
into the limelight.
Ellada is like
a far future Earth, where extremely sophisticated technology exists only as
relics, curiosities, and shards, while the people live rather like we did
sometime between the Middle Ages and the Victorian age; a post apocalyptic
Renaissance Faire. The world is very interesting and appealing, as are the
characters. There are so many unknowns, from what Micah might mean to the whole
planet to what the blue glass domes that are strewn through the city are. I am
dying to know how this trilogy turns out!
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