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Gossamer Mage
Gossamer Mage | Julie E Czerneda
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From an Aurora Award-winning author comes a new fantasy epic in which one mage must stand against a Deathless Goddess who controls all magic. Only in Tananen do people worship a single deity: the Deathless Goddess. Only in this small, forbidden realm are there those haunted by words of no language known to woman or man. The words are Her Gift, and they summon magic. Mage scribes learn to write Her words as intentions: spells to make beasts or plants, designed to any purpose. If an intention is flawed, what the mage creates is a gossamer: a magical creature as wild and free as it is costly for the mage. For Her Gift comes at a steep price. Each successful intention ages a mage until they dare no more. But her magic demands to be used; the Deathless Goddess will take her fee, and mages will die. To end this terrible toll, the greatest mage in Tananen vows to find and destroy Her. He has yet to learn She is all that protects Tananen from what waits outside. And all that keeps magic alive.
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SilverShanica
Gossamer Mage | Julie E Czerneda
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 318.
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humouress
The Gossamer Mage | Julie E. Czerneda

Leksand ducked his head, giving his mother a worried glance. Kait carefully didn‘t smile. “Go on, then,” she advised her son. “It‘ll be a longer trip if you don‘t talk.”

SweetBooks 😂 5y
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humouress
The Gossamer Mage | Julie E. Czerneda
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This one made me cry; she writes the mother-child bond beautifully, not with sentimentality but with a no-nonsense love. Absolutely spot on.

‘Leksand ducked his head, giving his mother a worried glance. Kait carefully didn‘t smile. “Go on, then,” she advised her son. “It‘ll be a longer trip if you don‘t talk.”‘

Some issues with half sentences, but I can live with that. Also with the elegant tattoos which unfortunately obscure some words.
5*****