The Sea Thy Mistress, Elizabeth Bear
The Sea Thy Mistress, Elizabeth Bear
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The Sea Thy Mistress

Author: Elizabeth Bear

Narrator: Ruth Urquhart

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/06/2018

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

This direct sequel to Elizabeth Bear's highly acclaimed All the Windwracked Stars picks up the story some fifty years after Muire went into the sea and became the new Bearer of Burdens.

Beautiful Cathoair, now an immortal warrior angel, has been called back to the city of Eiledon to raise his son—Muire's son as well, cast up on shore as an infant. It is seemingly a quiet life. But deadly danger approaches . . . the evil goddess Heythe, who engineered the death of Valdyrgard, has travelled forward in time on her rainbow steed. She came expecting to gloat over a dead world, the proof of her revenge, but instead she finds a Rekindled land, renewed by Muire's sacrifice.

She will have her revenge by forcing this new Bearer of Burdens to violate her oaths and break her bounds and thus bring about the true and final end of Valdyrgard. She will do it by tormenting both Cathoair and his son Cathmar. But Mingan, the gray wolf, sees his old enemy Heythe's return. He will not allow it to happen again.

About Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series, the Edda of Burdens series, and coauthor (with Sarah Monette) of the Iskryne series. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan

I'm trying to think how to describe what Elizabeth Bear has accomplished in this book, because it's really something quite extraordinary. I find when I read a lot of characters who are torturing themselves for some reason or another, I get frustrated. The author isn't doing enough to make it convinc......more

Goodreads review by Rosu

1.5 -- "I didn't like it."/"It was okay." The only reason this is getting a 2 instead of a 1 is because, as always, Bear's prose is gloriously wonderful to read and so I enjoyed it despite itself. Lordy, though. Lordy. I loved All the Windracked Stars. I loved the huge, fascinating world with all its co......more

Goodreads review by Hallie

Another uneven sequel - after liking All the Windwracked Stars so much, and thoroughly enjoying the prequel, this was somewhat disappointing. The characterizations were inconsistent; some of the backstories were referenced in ways that made them seem as though they should be important, then largely......more