Fifth Quarter, Tanya Huff
Fifth Quarter, Tanya Huff
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Fifth Quarter

Author: Tanya Huff

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged: 12 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/16/2018

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy


Synopsis

Trained to kill from childhood, siblings Bannon and Vree have only known life as assassins in the Imperial Army. The army is both their mother and father, their lives subject to the whims of the Crown.When their latest target steals Bannon’s body for his own, Vree saves her brother by dragging his spirit in to share hers. But two assassins in one body is one assassin too many. To save both their lives, they must abandon the only life they’ve known, risking Imperial ire and possible execution, to regain Bannon’s body. It isn’t until after they capture Gyhard, the body thief, that they realize they can’t force him to do anything while he holds Bannon’s body hostage.But Gyhard is willing to trade Bannon’s body for their assistance. All they have to do—while being hunted for desertion and dealing with an unknown power able to Sing the dead out of the grave—is betray the oaths they’ve lived by and help Gyhard secure the body of an Imperial Prince.

About Tanya Huff

Tanya Huff may have left Nova Scotia at three, and has lived most of her life since in Ontario, but she still considers herself a Maritimer. On the way to the idyllic rural existence she shares with her partner Fiona Patton, six cats, and a chihuahua, she acquired a degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnic—an education she was happy to finally use while writing her recent Smoke novels. Of her previous twenty-three books, the five—Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, Blood Debt—featuring Henry Fitzroy, bastard son of Henry VIII, romance writer, and vampire are among the most popular.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig

This is the second novel of Huff's four Quarters books. (Yes, the title is confusing.) It's not a direct sequel to Sing the Four Quarters, featuring a different group of characters and being set some distance in time and space from the first. There's an amusing and awkward thread of assassin brother......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy

While set in the same world as Sing the Four Quarters, it isn't a direct sequel. This actually helped a lot, because the sort of idealized original setting doesn't have a ton of inherent conflict - the Empire was a great place to look at the magic system from an outsider's point of view and introduc......more

Terrible. In the same world as the prior “Four Quarters,” but with a different set of protagonists and problems. Huff can write, but there were zero likable characters. And—for the most part—they made no decisions I would have made. I may be a minority, but when both are true, I find it impossible to......more