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The Firebird (Slains #2)

2013 | Fiction & Poetry

Nicola Marter was born with a gift. When she touches an object, she sometimes glimpses those who have owned it before. When a woman arrives with a small wooden carving at the gallery Nicola works at, she can see the object’s history and knows that it was named after the Firebird—the mythical creature from an old Russian fable.

Compelled to know more, Nicola follows a young girl named Anna into the past who leads her on a quest through the glittering backdrops of the Jacobites and Russian courts, unearthing a tale of love, courage, and redemption.



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The Firebird (Slains #2)
Susanna Kearsley | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
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This is a sequel to The Winter Sea and follows Anna, the child from that book as the second plot line. I'm kind of torn: I enjoyed Kearsley's writing style as much as in the first book, and it was good to see what had happened "off camera" with Anna. But some of the plot devices really felt like a stretch: like Dickens' multitude of coincidences in A Tale of Two Cities but without the benefit of actually being AToTC. I mean, I know we're talking about psychometry here but still.

Still a quick, fun read, but I simply didn't enjoy it quite as much as The Winter Sea.