Stranger in the Citadel

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2023 by Tachyon Publications.

ISBN:
978-1-61696-398-9
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4 stars (1 review)

The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel.

When Ishmael, an outcast librarian, shows up outside the Afriq Gate, Lilith saves him from immediate execution by her father’s second-in-command, the zealot Kira. As Lilith’s curiosity draws her to Ishmael, she lets slip her family’s most dangerous secret to Kira, sparking a deadly rebellion and an unexpected journey full of stunning revelations.

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The road to hell and so forth…

4 stars

When you set out to make a paradise, first make sure you aren't making a new special variant of hell seems to be the moral of A Stranger In The Citadel. We follow a young princess as she discovers things aren't quite as simple as she imagined and ends up going on an unintended voyage of discovery about her world. Pretty well paced and tantalizes with just enough detail to keep you going to the big reveals near the end.

And any book that starts with the line “Thou shall not suffer a librarian to live.” has already got a pretty interesting hook!

Subjects

  • Fiction, alternative history
  • Fiction, fantasy, action & adventure
  • Fiction, fantasy, historical