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Fourth book of Arden's highly praised Orokon series of fantasy adventures,
Sisterhood of the Blue Storm takes his heroic Prince Jem and his sidekicks Rajal and Littler to an endless chain of islands set in warm seas. Here, as they seek for another of the crystals which they need to save the world, they encounter corsairs, slave galleys, sea monsters, desert islands full of lost boys and above all the Sisterhood, evil sorceresses who shanghai islands aboard their travelling whirlwind to leech the strength and brains from the inhabitants. Here too they meet Selinda and Maius Eneo, two of the more star-crossed lovers of fiction, and re-encounter Captain Porlo, a likeable old pirate more or less at the end of his tether.
Arden's fantasies are wonderful camp confections in which every jokey reference is matched with a moment of genuine horror or terror, every moment of visual charm with one of visceral disgust. These are huge inventive books with a unique flavour and a group of ingenu adventurers whose sentimental education involves us in excitement, passion and blank verse. The Orokon is an inventive journey not quite like any other heroic fantasy. --Roz Kaveney
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Once the Isles of Wenaya were united in worship of Javander, goddess of the seas. From her vast, fantastical palace beneath the waves, Javander presided over a caste of priestesses, linked in a thrumming psychic web. Then the web was broken, Javander's people turned to false gods and the priestesses who once served her so well became the evil Sisterhood of the Blue Storm. Jem and his companions travel to the empty tropical island of Xaro, desperate to find Javander's blue crystal before the Anti God Toth Vexrah gets there. Meanwhile, the Triarch's beautiful young daughter, Selinda, determined to escape ritual murder, starts a journey of her own that entangles her in Jem's quest. So begins a bizarre and phantasmagorical tale, where slave galleys, ghost ships shipwrecks and sea monsters are only preludes to Jem's confrontation with the evil Sisterhood. Sisterhood of the Blue Storm is a whirling fantasia of swashbuckling adventure, tragedy and triumph, of comedy and romance, of heart-stopping action and unforgettable, larger-than-life characters, caught up in a quest on which hangs the fate of the world.
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