Witch's Honour (Hardcover)

Unlike the dark godling Azmordis, whose dark pacts and conventions Fern has dreams about, Morgus is a being who knows no limits and understands no rules. She attracts Fern’s attention through a gratuitous act of cruelty, plunging a carelessly offending rich girl into the sort of coma-dream from which she once drew Fern, and by casting the presiding spirits of an old house into the Abyss between worlds.

Siegel has a poetic understanding of power and its costs--Fern and her allies are joined in their fight with Morgus by Lucas, brother to the sleeping Dana, and a man whom Fern feels she has met before. Full of set pieces of genuine beauty and terror--Siegel does Morgus’s giant spider servitor with the same skill that she created a dragon and a unicorn in earlier books. This is an admirable conclusion to an impressive fantasy trilogy.--Roz Kaveney

Review
'A piece of pure magic - a charming, eccentric, and powerfully imaginative work of fantasy which will enchant readers for years to come.' Clive Barker 'A lyrical, captivating first novel of mermaids, magic, lost worlds and found souls. Once read, this book will not be forgotten' Terry Brooks

Witch's Honour is the last in Jan Siegel's trilogy began in Prospero's Children and continued in The Dragon-Charmer. In the previous volumes our heroine, Fern, became aware of her powers as a witch and, with her brother Will and other allies, sought to defeat dark forces including sorceress Morgus, who tried to imprison Fern in the Otherworld and was killed by her in return. Now Fern is grown up and working in PR in London, but she discovers that Morgus has returned from the dead and come to England to seek her revenge, while evil spirit Azmordis is also on the warpath. Siegel's world is set within ours but it is a world of witches, wizards, goblins and earth-powers which coexist with ordinary and mundane people. The Gifted, or Prospero's children, have witch powers derived from the fall of Atlantis, and Atlantean and Arthurian myths are central to the narrative. Siegel writes well, and her excellent descriptive talents create some moments of real fear. The narrative sags a little in the middle - usually a problem of the middle volume of a trilogy rather than the last - but the exciting finale more than makes up for it. Siegel has a strong future ahead of her. Ages 12+ (Kirkus UK)

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