Chrysanthe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765330260)

Christine, the princess and heir to the real world of Chrysanthe, is kidnapped as a small child by a powerful magician and exiled in a Made World that is a version of our present reality. In exile, supervised by her strict "uncle"(actually a wizard in disguise), she undergoes bogus memory recovery therapy, through which she is forced to remember childhood rape and abuse by her parents and others. She is terribly stunted emotionally by this terrifying plot, but at seventeen discovers it is all a lie. Christine escapes with a rescuer, Sir Quentin, a knight from Chrysanthe, in a thrilling chase across realities.

Once home, the magical standoff caused by her exile is broken, and a war begins, in spite of the best efforts of her father, the king, and his wizard, Melogian. And that war, which takes up nearly the last third of the work, is a marvel of magical invention and terror, a battle between good and evil forces that resounds with echoes of the great battles of fantasy literature.

Author: Yves Meynard
ISBN-10: 0765330261
ISBN-13: 9780765330260
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2012
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.12w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2012 pg. 42
Romantic Times 03/01/2012 pg. 64 - Very Good
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2012
Library Journal 03/15/2012 pg. 95