Synopses & Reviews
First in a new fantasy series from the author of the Cloudmages trilogy.
An intricate tale of murder and magic, deception and betrayal, Machiavellian politics, star-crossed lovers, and a world on the brink of devastating war....
Over the decades and slow centuries, the city of Nessantico spread its influence in all directions, subsuming and converting the majority of other religions and lesser gods within the Holdings. Always strong even as the borders of the Holdings ebbed and flowed under the effects of war and commerce, always magnificent even as tastes and styles changed, always seductive and desirable no matter what other exotic lands and places might briefly come into fashion, Nessantico gathered to itself all that was intellectual, all that was rich, all that was powerful. There was no city in the known world that could rival it. But there were many who envied it...
Review
"S.L. Farrell is a relative newcomer on the fantasy scene, but he writes like a seasoned pro.
A Magic of Twilight is his best yet, a delicious melange of politics, war, sorcery, and religion in a richly imagined world peopled with a varied cast of haughty lords, scheming courtiers, beggars, priests, heretics, zealots, spies, assassins, torturers, tarts, and seductresses. They're vivid and memorable characters, and most are painted in shades of grey, my favorite color. Farrell's Nessantico evokes the Italian city-states of the Rennaissance, especially Venice, but this is a Venice where magic works. It's a fascinating place, and one that I look forward to visiting again."
--New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin
"Farrell's melodrama ultimately swept me away on a thoroughly enjoyable ride."
--John R. Alden, The Plain Dealer
About the Author
S. L. Farrell is the pseudonym for a veteran author of eighteen science fiction and fantasy novels. Hailed as a master of Celtic fantasy for his Cloudmages series, he now presents a magnificent new universe.