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The Sacrifice
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
A really gripping story of warring, magic Fey besieging an apparently non-magic, peaceful island... But the islanders find a powerful and mysterious (even for them) weapon that brings the war to a stall. Some kind of compromise and sacrifice will possibly be necessary to move on. The characters are all interesting, each of them with their own secrets and special abilities. The Feys are of many different types and kinds of powers, or lack of power, and are everything but the dreamy sparkling species other stories describe, everything but banal. Not all of their world and abilities are explained, the reader often finds out about them as the Islanders find them out, and some of them remain a mystery. But so do some religious practices of the Blue Isle and their faith and its origins. It's hard to take a side, as the story gives us such rounded characters on both groups. The suspence is constantly on the surface as so many details are unclear and you do not always know what a character is going to do or say. Of course this is just the first novel of a series and although it gives partial closure at the end, it also leaves quite a few open threads. I'm curious to see how the story goes on and to learn more about this fascinating world and characters.