08 Feb 2012 1 Comment

Waiting On Wednesday: Mermaid Action and Magic

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.

After devouring the first installment, Tempest Rising in 2011 it was easy to see this gem finding its way into my reading pile. June can’t get here fast enough. (Sighs) Tracy’s characters and skills at storytelling make the wait worth while. If you haven’t read Tempest Rising I suggest you devour it in all its glory before the next installment hit stores. You will NOT regret it.

Tempest Unleashed by Tracy Deebs
Tempest Series #2
Release date: 6/5/2012

Tempest Maguire is happy with her decision to embrace her mermaid nature and live among her mother’s clan within the ocean’s depths. Even though training to one day ascend the throne for the aging mermaid queen is rigorous, she finds refuge in the arms of Kona, the selkie who first opened her up to her mermaid side. But when word comes that one of her brothers has been gravely injured on land, Tempest immediately rushes to his side—which also brings her back to her old flame, Mark. And in her absence, a deadly battle begins raging at the hands of Tempest’s old nemesis, the sea witch Tiamat. As the dangerous war erupts, Tempest’s two loves—Kona and Mark, sea and land—will collide for the first time, both to protect her and to force her to choose.

Christine, the princess and heir to the real world of Chrysanthe, is kidnapped as a small child by a powerful magician and exiled in a Made World that is a version of our present reality. In exile, supervised by her strict “uncle”(actually a wizard in disguise), she undergoes bogus memory recovery therapy, through which she is forced to remember childhood rape and abuse by her parents and others. She is terribly stunted emotionally by this terrifying plot, but at seventeen discovers it is all a lie. Christine escapes with a rescuer, Sir Quentin, a knight from Chrysanthe, in a thrilling chase across realities.

Once home, the magical standoff caused by her exile is broken, and a war begins, in spite of the best efforts of her father, the king, and his wizard, Melogian. And that war, which takes up nearly the last third of the work, is a marvel of magical invention and terror, a battle between good and evil forces that resounds with echoes of the great battles of fantasy literature.

What are you waiting on this Wednesday? Should I be waiting on your pick too? Share you WOW links in the comments and I’ll drop in for a visit.

by Jennifer in Features, Waiting on Wednesday Tags: Chrysanthe, Tempest Rising, Tempest Series, Tempest Unleashed, Tracy Deebs, Yves Meynard