May 23, 2020

The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas - (5/23)

The same author as A Study in Scarlet Women.  This is a fantasy set in an Earth where Atlantis and The Domain are populated by mages of differing abilities.  Our main characters are Iolanthe Seabourne, a young woman who suddenly is able to call down lightning, a great feat for an elemental mage,  and Prince Titus, Master of The Domain.  Opposed to the pair is Atlantis, ruled by the Bane.  In order to hide Iolanthe, Titus disguises her as a boy and she spends the next year at Eton with a magical spell that makes everyone think ‘he’ is Fairfax, a great cricket player.  Titus also lays a spell to keep any image of Fairfax from being recognized.  Through training in the Crucible, a magic book with tests, Titus trains Fairfax to get better with the one element she has no control over; air.  And he falls in love with her, but struggles to keep his eye on the goal; the overthrow of Atlantis.

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