Across the Long Sea

by Sarah Remy

Overview

The gripping follow-up to Stonehill Downs

As the most valuable asset in the kingdom of Wilhaiim, Malachi Doyle has many responsibilities—protector, assassin, detective, and King Renault's right-hand man. And until he met Avani in the cursed village of Stonehill Downs, he believed he was the last of his kind: a magus who can communicate with the dead.

But Wilhaiim is left vulnerable when Mal and his page, Liam, are kidnapped and ferried across the Long Sea to a warring kingdom in search of its own magus. To make matters worse, a springtime plague is rapidly spreading, and beneath the earth the sidhe are preparing for war. With Mal missing and presumed dead, Avani reluctantly takes his place as Wilhaiim's magus. But her powers are unreliable and untested, her many allies are treacherous, and she is certain Mal is alive. Will she be able to keep Wilhaiim—and herself—safe?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062383457
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/29/2015
Series:	Bone Magic , #2
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Sarah Remy writes fiction to keep real life from getting out of hand. She lives in Spokane, Washington, where she shows horses, works at a local elementary school, and rehabs her old house.

Editorial Reviews

Remy creates an immersive experience where the mundane and magical coexist and threats build from all sides.As the stakes rise in this tale about a king’s sorcerer, pages practically turn themselves.” — Kirkus Reviews on ACROSS THE LONG SEA

From the Publisher

2016-05-19
Remy (Stonehill Downs, 2014) offers a historical fantasy sequel that deepens the mysteries surrounding the Kingdom of Wilhaiim. This novel begins about a year after the tragic events of Stonehill Downs. A new plague, the Red Worm, targets the children of Wilhaiim, and Malachi Doyle, the king's magus/detective, investigates using medieval science and his ability to confer with the dead. When Mal receives a message that his father is dying, King Renault insists that the magus travel to the seaside village and visit the family that rejected him. Mal's back story and the fictional history and customs of the land constitute the bulk of several chapters, which may please series fans but is slow going for casual readers. The pace picks up when perspective switches to vivacious Avani. A survivor of the Sunken Islands with magical abilities, Avani has returned to shepherding peacefully on the Downs, avoiding Wilhaiim and distancing herself from her romantic/mystical attraction to Mal. Nonetheless, she plunges into danger while studying the sidhe, underground-dwelling vampiric creatures in an uneasy truce with humans. When she finds a key in an abandoned blacksmith's cellar, she risks her life to explore sidhe tunnels alone. Her investigations are interrupted when she receives word that Mal and Liam, the magus' squire, have been kidnapped. At the king's behest, she returns to Wilhaiim, a changed kingdom shrouded in plague-killing smoke, paranoia, and the growing power of the Masterhealer and his sword-wielding priests. Meanwhile, Mal and Liam, prisoners on a ship, become embroiled in their captors' plot while struggling against the inherent dangers of a magus at sea (who knew whale-bone handcuffs block magic?). Switching between Avani and Mal, Remy creates an immersive experience where the mundane and magical coexist and threats build from all sides. Typos—for example, "loosing" instead of "losing"—blemish the action-packed book but don't detract significantly. At the end, many crises are tidily, if a bit predictably, resolved, but others unfortunately remain unsettled, leaving readers to wait for the third novel in the series. As the stakes rise in this tale about a king's sorcerer, pages practically turn themselves, but several questions remain unanswered until the next installment.

Kirkus Reviews