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The Book of Forbidden Wisdom Kindle Edition
In a world of blood and betrayal, love is the only redemption. But that knowledge can only be reached by means of magic and a journey, by way of a confrontation with feelings that are hard to understand--or bear.
On Angel's sixteenth birthday, her younger sister, Silky, wakes her to prepare her for a marriage to Leth, a man she likes but does not love. Trey, her oldest childhood friend who is secretly in love with her, watches helplessly.
But Angel's brother, Kalo, interrupts the wedding ceremony. He wants her dowry, and he also believes Angel can lead him to The Book of Forbidden Wisdom. In a world where land is everything, this book promises him wealth. In the night, Kalo goes to Angel's room to threaten her, but Trey has rescued both Angel and Silky, and the three of them--joined by an itinerant singer--themselves seek The Book of Forbidden Wisdom. While Kalo believes the book contains land deeds, they believe it harbors great power. Meanwhile, during their journey, Angel is torn between her deep and loving friendship with Trey and the dark attraction of the singer.
Always just a step ahead of Kalo, Angel, Silky, Trey, and the Bard finally arrive at the place of The Book. But things have changed now: Angel knows her own heart at last. Confronted by evil, at the end of the known world, Angel and her companions turn and fight. Together. And in so doing, Angel finds that love contains a power of its own.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper Voyager Impulse
- Publication dateMarch 8, 2016
- File size1302 KB
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About the Author
When Gillian Murray Kendall was a child, she spent multiple years in England while her father researched his biography of Richard III and her mother wrote children’s books. She thrived. She had stumbled into a wardrobe, and her enchanted world was England. That sense of belonging-in-the-strange shaped both Gillian’s life and her writing. In the 1980s, the months and months she spent in Africa waiting in lines for kerosene and milk and rice or camping while being circled by annoyed lions was a new normal, while Gillian found the once-familiar Harvard, with its well-stocked grocery stores, alien and unknown. She saw things in a way she could not before. Recently Gillian spent two years in Paris, where learning a new culture, a new strangeness, resulted in the writing of her first book, The Garden of Darkness, and the beginning of The Book of Forbidden Wisdom. She heartily recommends being knocked off one’s feet by the world. Gillian teaches English literature, primarily Shakespeare, at Smith College and is married to biologist Robert Dorit. She has two sons, Sasha and Gabriel.
Product details
- ASIN : B015WXSNH6
- Publisher : Harper Voyager Impulse (March 8, 2016)
- Publication date : March 8, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 1302 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 349 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,320,300 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,836 in Mythology & Folk Tales (Kindle Store)
- #6,074 in Coming of Age Fantasy eBooks
- #7,173 in Coming of Age Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Gillian Murray Kendall is an English Professor at Smith College where she teaches Shakespeare and 17th Century Poetry as well as the post-apocalyptic novel and creative writing. She is married to biologist Robert Dorit and has two children, Sasha and Gabriel. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts ("where the coffee is strong, and the women are stronger"). There. Now do you know who I am?
This may help. I have a size 7 shoe. I read books I love over and over and over. I ride horses and jump over increasingly large obstacles. That's me.
My first novel, *The Garden of Darkness*, is more than I am; it comes from that nebulous place in the brain where ideas form. I grabbed some of those ideas, rearranged them, and wrote a post-apocalyptic novel that is deeply about the will to survive and the nature of friendship and, finally, about love.
My second novel, *The Book of Forbidden Wisdom*, is set in a world where the highborn heroine is taught that love is an inconvenience and an arranged marriage is far more practical. In Angel's quest to find the Book that will set her sister and herself free, however, she finds herself deeply attracted to both a friend and an itinerant singer. She must learn not only the secrets of the Book of Forbidden Wisdom, but the secrets of her heart.
I'm also an editor of a collection of essays, *Shakespearean Power and Punishment.* Check out the cool cover on Amazon.
Happy reading.
I hope you enjoy *The Garden of Darkness* and meeting Clare and Jem. And I hope you fall in love with Angel and Silky and Trey in *The Book of Forbidden Wisdom*.
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A particular thing about this particular book is that it commits to its characters being products of their world. They stay in that context, which really helps with the willing suspension of disbelief. It also nice straddles the dilemma of "have antagonist with motivations" and "my, aren't evil antagonists very entertaining sometimes." Sometime you need a mustache twirler. Sometimes you need ambiguity. Sometimes one needs a zombie attack. Such is life.
Lastly though, you likely need to be warned: this is a world that does the (prosaic) thing of constructing a pre-modern culture that does not treat women as being with agency. If you are the sort who gets defensive about such thing, very quick to the point out it isn't all... you know... this might not be the book for you. One needs some maturity to face a fantasy world much like our own sometimes.