Wolf Tower
Tanith Lee
Dutton Books, May 2000
ISBN:0-525-46394-1
A quick-witted, fast-paced fantasy starring a canny heroine who challenges the boundaries of her world.
Master storyteller Tanith Lee gives us an unforgettable first-person, diary narrative that sweeps readers into an epic adventure while probing thruths of adolescence.
Sixteen-year-old Claidi is an orphan, forced to serve as a handmaiden to cruel royal families in the oppressive House. Outspoken and ready for romance, she becomes embroiled in a plot to rescue a handsome, intriguing prisoner. She wins freedom for herself, too, but after journeying with him across the perilous Waste, Claidi discovers that her freedom is only a sham-and she must act boldly to destroy a conspiracy across generations.
Claidi's charisma, her romantic turmoil, and the revelatory insights of her journals make Wold Tower a novelistic coup that reader's won't put down until Claidi confronts the dreadful Tower itself.
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