by Lane Robins
I took a three year break in the middle of reading this. It's ridiculously over-the-top, in a lot of ways--the prose, the characters' melodrama with each other, the death count (seriously, the death count)--and I found it easy to set aside, but once I actually had it in my hands again the pages flew...
After the love of her life, Janus, is stolen by Lord Last who hopes to make his bastard son heir, Miranda swears she will do anything to get him back, even pledge herself to Ani, the dead goddess of Vengence, who may not be so dead after all, and become the ward of the lascivious old courtier Vornat...
Rating: Falls somewhere between 3.5 and 4 starsI'm a sucker for good revenge fantasies, particularly ones where the avenger realizes (often, alas, too late) how pointless their vengeance has become when they finally achieve it. (When I first read The Count of Monte Cristo, I think that's one of the ...