![]() ![]() In the second volume, The Tower of Thorns, they are again called on to help when a howling creature haunts a formidable hedge-enclosed tower on the land near the northern border, causing suffering and total disruption. She settles at Winterfalls and practises her craft with Grim’s support – theirs is a platonic and fairly affectionate relationship. She complies, bitterly, and is able to help the ruling Prince Oran with a frightening mistaken identity situation that threatens his married happiness and has echoes of the fairy tale ‘The Goose Girl’. Strangely, an elf lord, Conmael, frees her on condition that she goes to Dalriada, helps anyone who asks for help and promises not to seek justice against Mathuin for seven years. ![]() Grim tries to support and protect her in the prison. She is consumed by hatred and a simmering desire for justice and revenge. In the first volume, Dreamer’s Pool, Blackthorn has been imprisoned falsely by Mathuin, a tribal leader and warlord who has viciously murdered her husband and son. This is the third volume to follow the adventures of the healer Blackthorn and her friend and companion Grim, set in the northern Irish part of Dalriada, a sixth and seventh-century Gaelic region of western Scotland and Ireland. Juliet Marillier’s fine new fairy tale weaves stories within stories in complex and riveting ways. Tags: Australian SFF/ Australian women's writing/ Juliet Marillier ![]() ![]() JULIET MARILLIER Den of Wolves: Blackthorn & Grim #3. ![]()
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