The Firebird's Vengeance
Book Three of The Isavalta Trilogy
Sarah Zettel
Voyager, a division of HarperCollins
Trade paperback, 420 pages, R149.95
Reviewed by Gail Jamieson, 22 July 2004
Thirty years have passed since the death of the Sorcerer Avanasy helped to
seal the Firebird into its magical cage. Now the Dowager Empress Medeoan
has died as well and the Firebird has thus been released to extract the
vengeance it has been planning over it's long imprisonment - to totally raze
Isavalta.
Bridget, who had returned home, is warned by The Vixen of the release of
the Firebird and knows she has to return to Isavalta, but she also discovers
that Kalami had tricked her into believing that her daughter, Anna, had died
when she in fact, had been kidnapped by her father and returned to Isavalta
and left in the care of the Nine Elders of Hung-Tse.
Bridget is torn between her feeling that she must help to stop the Firebird
and her desperate desire to find her daughter - the child of two sorcerers
and therefore a potentially a powerful sorcerer herself.
This final novel of the trilogy ties up all the loose ends from the
previous two and is equally well written. This is fantasy at its best and I
look forward to further offerings from this author.
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