Review
Once a year, a new novelist really blows me away. Last year it was Suzanne Collins with The Hunger Games. This year it's Gillian Philip's Firebrand...This deserves prizes... The best fantasy novel of 2010. --The Times
Everything fantasy should be: vital, charismatic characters; intensely personal stories, big, arching themes of power and greed, love and loyalty... And all about the terrible things people do to one another for the sake of a cause or ambition, so there's plenty of crying to do... Superb... I'm blown away! --The Bookbag
Vast in its magnitude... there are so many things about this book that make me crazy with love of it. Firstly, it is beautifully written... Secondly, the plot kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through... Gillian Philip is a breath-taking writer who has taken a genre that is swimming with the mediocre and given it an awe-inspiring transformation and I worship her for it. --The Bookette
Everything fantasy should be: vital, charismatic characters; intensely personal stories, big, arching themes of power and greed, love and loyalty... And all about the terrible things people do to one another for the sake of a cause or ambition, so there's plenty of crying to do... Superb... I'm blown away! --The Bookbag
Vast in its magnitude... there are so many things about this book that make me crazy with love of it. Firstly, it is beautifully written... Secondly, the plot kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through... Gillian Philip is a breath-taking writer who has taken a genre that is swimming with the mediocre and given it an awe-inspiring transformation and I worship her for it. --The Bookette
Product Description
"Utterly thrilling...the best fantasy of 2010"" (The Times) ""Stark and brutal, with moments of heartbreaking beauty"" (The Guardian)"
Seth MacGregor is the half-feral, bastard son of a Sithe nobleman. It’s the last decade of the sixteenth century: a time of religious wars and witch-hunts in the full-mortal world. But the Sithe are at peace – until their queen, Kate NicNiven, determines to destroy the protecting Veil.
When his father Griogair is assassinated, and Seth is exiled with his brother Conal to the full-mortal world, they vow to survive, to return to reclaim their fortress and save the Veil.
But even its power can’t protect the brothers when the witch-hunts begin...
Seth MacGregor is the half-feral, bastard son of a Sithe nobleman. It’s the last decade of the sixteenth century: a time of religious wars and witch-hunts in the full-mortal world. But the Sithe are at peace – until their queen, Kate NicNiven, determines to destroy the protecting Veil.
When his father Griogair is assassinated, and Seth is exiled with his brother Conal to the full-mortal world, they vow to survive, to return to reclaim their fortress and save the Veil.
But even its power can’t protect the brothers when the witch-hunts begin...
