The greatest feat of magic and engineering in history, the Leviathan Bridge, rises from the waves during the Moontide. East is east and west is west, and the twain meet only for two years out of twelve, when the moon–which in this world is close enough to Earth to fill a third of the sky–causes a localized low tide. The world of Mage’s Blood is a sort of fever dream of Europe and its Near East, if the Mediterranean and Black Seas were impassably vast and the Bosphorus were hundreds of miles wide. And if the first volume is anything to go by, I think he probably does. The word “Quartet” in the title helps, too, with its suggestion that the author knows where he is going with the series.
#The moontide quartet characters series
I picked up David Hair’s first volume of the new Moontide Quartet series because it promised a large ensemble cast arrayed in a family saga big enough to keep all those characters busy for years. Sprawl may be a virtue in novels, but in blog posts, not so much. Rowling had made her last volume about fifty pages longer, though this is not the time to say why. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire books and I was probably the only reader of Harry Potter who wished J.K. I may be the only person on Earth who is not at all perturbed by the ever-increasing length of George R. Not just this novel, Mage’s Blood, but novels generally, in all their varied glories. Sprawl is my favorite virtue of the novel.
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