Koffi is an indentured servant at the Night Zoo, a rundown menagerie where she and her mother are enslaved.
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Full of complex characters and unexpected twists, this moving book explores what it means to rebuild and how much history depends on who is left to tell it.īut Koffi and Ekon know little of this history. “Year of the Reaper” is a refreshing stand-alone novel in a sea of fantasy series, and Lucier does a good job pacing its central whodunit, up until the frantic conclusion.
Concerned, Cas teams up with Lena, a headstrong historian and erstwhile horse thief, to figure out who is killing off members of the royal household - and, more important, why. But soon other members of the court start turning up dead, marked by strange gold coins and trailing whispers of a white-haired killer. When an assassin makes an attempt on the life of the crown prince, who is only an infant, Cas swoops in to save the day. He arrives to find a city fractured by tragedy, in a nation struggling to maintain a fragile peace. Oh, and he can now talk to ghosts (a skill whose origins are, frustratingly, never fully explained). He is subjected to torture, and a case of the plague, before being released to make his way home - haunted by nightmares and struggling to reconcile the horrors of his past with the new reality of his present. Cas, an 18-year-old nobleman from the city of Palmerin, has just emerged from prison, captured at the tail end of a century-long war between his homeland and a neighboring kingdom.