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|title=The Heart of the Mirage

|sort=Heart of the Mirage

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=480

|publisher=Orbit

|date=August 2007

|isbn=978-1841496092

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When we first meet Ligea Gayed, she has a rather high opinion of herself. Highly self-confident to the point of being high-handed, more than a little sly, and extremely ambitious, she has taken to the land she was brought up in like a duck to water. She believes Tyrans is a benevolent, cultured empire and looks down on the culture of her birth with some contempt, glad she was stolen away as a child and raised by one of the Generals of Tyr. So she reacts very badly when she is sent on a mission back to Kardiastan to quell a growing conspiracy, although as she is hardly given any information to go on at all, save the leadership of a mysterious Mir Ager, she has a right to be suspicious.

The book ends on only a vague sense of having wrapped up one part of the story - this is the first part of a trilogy, however all three books are published already in other parts of the world, and the second book will be released in the UK in December, and the third next May. Although it's not so long to wait, I'm not sure I can hang on that long - I might well break down and bribe some friends on the other side of the world (Glenda Larke is Australian, although she is very well-travelled and now lives in Malaysia) to send the books to me. And if that isn't a recommendation to read these books, I don't know what is. Highly enjoyable, this book's got love, betrayal, skulduggery, espionage, adventure, magic, heartbreak and plenty more besides.

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