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    Foxmask
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    Foxmask
    Audiobook22 hours

    Foxmask

    Written by Juliet Marillier

    Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

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    About this audiobook

    The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society where the Norse warriors and the gentle folks of the Orkney Isles live and thrive in contentment at last. A decade and more has passed since the devastating events of the creation of the settlement and Eyvind and Nessa have watched their children grow and thrive in peace. But not all on the islands are content or at peace. Thorvald, the young son of Margaret, widow of the slain king and Eyvind's war leader, has always felt apart and at odds with all he knows. He learns upon his coming to manhood that he is not his father's son but that of the love that Margaret bore for the hated Somerled and that Somerled was not killed for his treachery but sent on a boat, adrift with little more than a knife and skein of water, doomed to the god's will. Thorvald is determined to find a boat and cast off to the West in a desperate bid to find a father he never knew...and to find out if he is made of the same stuff as the henious traitor. The tragedy of this scheme would be horrific enough...if it were not for the fact that Creidhe, the winsome daughter of Eyvind and Nessa has loved Thorvald since birth and unbeknownst to him conspires to go along on this most perilous of quests. What happens to them on their journey of discovery will ultimately change the lives of all they know and love...and will doom (or redeem) an entire people.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 6, 2018
    ISBN9781501992100
    Foxmask
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    Juliet Marillier

    JULIET MARILLIER achieved international recognition with the publication of the first two award-winning novels in the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a historical fantasy set in Ireland and Britain in the ninth century, and loosely based on the fairy tale “The Six Swans”. Her other historical fantasy series include the Viking-inspired Light Isles duology and the Bridei Chronicles set in north Britain in the time of the Picts.

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    • 3/5
      I respect what Juliet Marillier is trying to do with both this book and Wolfskin -- but it's really hard to translate icelandic saga into contemporary fantasy. I think she does a better job of it than anyone else, but I also think her ya book are more readable, somehow. Not really less complex, but somehow more engaging, and I think that has to do with how saga characters are portrayed. This one ends better than most, but I have a hard time investing my liking into a character that is obviously doomed in some way, and that is a hallmark of saga heroes.
    • 5/5
      I am a huge fan of Juliet Marillier and along with "Dreamer's Pool" this novel "Foxmask" is my absolute favourites of her novels. I have just completed a reread via audio of it and it was wonderful. It has fabulous characters - it is full of tragedy, hope, love and it goes in directions you do not always expect. Yes, I was lost in fear of what would happen at times and I cried more than once. I loved it.
    • 4/5
      I normally sink into Juliet Marillier's books and have trouble putting them down almost immediately--within twenty pages, all I want to do is continue being dragged along in her words and worlds. The first book in this series, Wolfskin, was no different. I fell in love with the characters and the world, and was utterly fascinated for the duration of the novel.And yet, somehow... this finish to the two-book series didn't hold me like her other books have. It may be that the characters felt a bit younger and less mature (though I don't think they were meant to), or it may be that the first book just had such a hold on me that I wasn't ready to let those characters go so completely and focus on their children (though I expected it, knowing the author), but for whatever reason, I had a hard time keeping my focus on this one. In fact, through nearly the first half of it, I kept sort of wandering away from it to engage with other books, and though I kept coming back to it, I fear my returning was as much to do with habit and love of the author's works in general as it was to do with this particular story.In the last 100 or so pages, I couldn't put this book down, but I can't say it ever pulled together the same power as the other books I've read by Marillier, or even nearly the same power as the book that came before it in this series. I'm glad to have read it, and finished the series, but I don't think this is one I'll come back to, and it will probably keep this series from being the one it comes to mind to recommend when I think of the author.Certainly, I'd recommend it to readers of Wolfskin, but although it could probably be read on its own without too much difficulty, I'd only send readers in that direction, and tell them to come on to this one if they wanted the series wrap-up and to follow on with the children of the characters from the first book.
    • 5/5
      How does Juliet Marillier do it? How is she able to take such a time in history, such unknown cultures and traditions, and bring humanity and understanding to them?This second book in her "Light Isles" series follows the son of Somerled and Margaret as he learns who his father is, and a daughter of Nessa and Eyvind, as they reach their late teens and set off on an adventure. Seventeen years have passed since the events of [Wolfskin] and the settlement on the Light Isles has begun to grow and prosper under the new times.Thorvald is much like his father - cut off from Creidhe, his childhood friend, unable to find his role in the Isles, and he decides he must go in search of his father to find himself. He does so with the help of his other close friend, Sam, a fisherman, and Creidhe is a stowaway on their boat. And for once Creidhe is a heroine who loves needlework and knows the magic and the beauty in it! Thank you so much, Juliet Marillier! For Creidhe brings with her her master embroidered work, The Journey, where she records with needle and thread her life's journey.When the intrepid trio land on the larger of the Lost Isles, they find themselves part of an intrigue among the Long Knife people and their leader, Asgrim, and a terrible curse laid upon the people by the Unspoken whose new shaman was stolen by Asgrim's son. No children can live past their first sunset until their Seer is returned, and each year under Asgrim's leadership a Hunt is made to find the Seer.With a deft storyteller's touch, the fates of all of these peoples, even Sam the fisherman and his boat, are intertwined, Thorvald finds the ability to lead, Creidhe finds a mystery that tugs at her heartstrings, and things may or may not settle into Happily Ever After. Detailed without being boring and instead I was kept wondering how on earth this was going to end and whether truth would come forth!
    • 5/5
      Foxmask by Juliet Marillier is the sequel to her previous novel Wolfskin. Although connected, these two books could each stand alone. Combining both Viking and Celtic legends, these fantasies are a wonderful blend of magic and history with the end result being an atmospheric, multi-layered fantasy story. My only complaint about Foxmask was I felt the book could have delivered just as much impact with a hundred pages or so cut from it’s length. Although a little too wordy, this is a tale of loss and redemption, love and sacrifice, strength and weakness. The main character is Creidhe, a young girl who follows her heart in all matters. She stows away in order to follow Thorvald whom she has loved since girlhood. They, along with a friend, Sam, end up on the Lost Isles where they all go through enormous changes and each discover their own path in life. Creidhe has the most emotional journey, as the blinders fall away, and she discovers her true love, only to face loss and sadness.Foxmask is an engrossing, beautifully written story. Juliet Marillier writes in a lyrical manner and evokes such emotion that I readily admit being brought to tears over this story. Characters with depth, an intriguing plot and captivating writing are all details that I have come to expect from this author and in Foxmask she delivers all three.
    • 5/5
      Máscara de Raposa é a ovelha negra das obras da Juliet. Porquê? Não sei. A opinião geral é mais ou menos assim "Não me identifiquei muito com a Creidhe", ou "A Creidhe irrita-me um bocadinho". E porque será isto? Será porque a rapariga é a mais desperate housewife das protagonistas da autora? Será porque ela é apaixonadíssima por um idiota e não correspondida? Ou será porque é um bocadinho... sei lá o quê? Um absoluto mistério. Bem, Creidhe à parte, os machos desta trama também deixam algo a desejar; Thorvald é o tal idiota que em vez de dar graças aos céus pela mãe e pela Creidhe, prefere passar a vida a remoer no assunto Tadinho De Mim Que Não Conheço O Meu Pai; o Sam é outro louco enamorado não correspondido que admito, muito por culpa do seu nome, mas também pelo facto de ser o sidekick bonzinho-certinho-toninho faz constantemente lembrar o Sam do The Lord Of The Rings - versão filme - e por mais fofinhos que ambos sejam há algo que... não sei; o Guardião, o Guardião é o típico herói Marillierano, cavalheiro, forte, corajoso, modesto, muito apaixonado e com aquela faceta não-sou-bom-o-suficiente-para-aquela-deusa que derrete o coração quer da deusa, quer das leitoras. Para agravar o seu carácter, ele possui ainda um instinto paternal/fraternal super desenvolvido que vaporiza os corações derretidos anteriormente, e ainda assim, há qualquer coisa... não sei.Até hoje não sei se foi um percalço na tradução, ou então se a Juliet usou mesmo, mesmo aquele termo diga-se... chocante, se o comparar-mos com termos para descrever a mesma situação em obras anteriores (ufa). Não é incorrecto, é até biologica/anatomica/cientificamente o mais correcto (suponho), mas pronto... era escusado. Bah! Leiam-no:)