Kushiel's Dart

Kinduva cheesy looking cover on this one, eh? But mind the old maxim!* This was a good read! And at 901 pages, one would sure hope so. Kushiel's Dart is an epic fantasy story set in an alternate medieval Europe in which “Terre D'Ange” is substituted for France, “Alba” for England, “Skaldia” for Scandinavia/Russia, etc. Out heroine is Phèdre nó Delaunay, sold to a respectable brothel at the age of four and tutored in the arts of the courtesan. But Phèdre is no ordinary girl, she is marked by a scarlet mote in her left eye, a.k.a. Kushiel's Dart (a reference from the story's religious background mythology.) What Kushiel's Dart signifies is that Phèdre is an anguisette. Whuh? ...

an anguissette is one of Kushiel's chosen mortals, picked to “balance the scales” against those who impart suffering without compassion. Anguisettes feel pain and pleasure as one. Additionally, the wounds of those who bear Kushiel's Dart never fail to heal clean. Those who have been chosen by Kushiel have a scarlet mote in their left eye, referred to poetically as Kushiel's Dart. (see http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Anguissette)

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Kushiel's Chosen