The Crowded Shadows – Celine Kiernan (Moorehawke Trilogy #2)
Allen & Unwin, 2010
518 pages
RRP: AU$19.99
ISBN: 978-1-74175-870-2

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

The Crowded Shadows is a well-written second instalment in the Moorehawke Trilogy. Like the first novel, this has lovely characterisation, pacy action and interesting ideas. It does, however, suffer a little from being the middle child, as the story doesn’t come to a satisfying conclusion in this book, needing the third to finish the story.

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The Poison Throne (The Moorehawke Trilogy #1) – Celine Kiernan
Allen & Unwin, 2009
468 pages
RRP: AU$19.99
ISBN: 978-1-74175-868-9

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

The Poison Throne is the beginning of a fantastic (in all senses of the word) trilogy from Celine Kiernan. It follows fifteen-year-old Wynter Moorehawke, an apprentice carpenter and daughter of Lord Protector Lorcan Moorehawke. The story starts as Wynter and Lorcan return from a five-year sojourn in the Northlands at the king’s request.

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