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    The Barbed Rose

    By Gail Dayton

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    Demons are coming. One woman has been chosen to face them…

    Demon hordes still threaten the Kingdom while open rebellion has broken out within its cities, separating Kallista from her new family. Assassination attempts, magical attacks—she's surrounded by devastation unlike anything she's ever known, and her unique magic power no longer works as it should. Yet her own pain must yield to the needs of her country, for this military mage is charged with searching the four directions of the world for the other "Godmarked"—the only ones who can help her keep demon invaders from shattering her world. But can she find them in time?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Luna
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
    ISBN9781426849008
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    The Barbed Rose
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    Gail Dayton

    Like many writers, Gail started writing about the time she could compose a logical sentence, at about nine years old. But she can't remember a time when she wasn't playing make-believe, rearranging the world into something more exciting, more fun, more the way she wished it were. With her, of course, in the centre! From re-plotting books to put herself in the action to making up stories of her own, Gail began writing them down and just kept going. She has worked a lot of jobs in her checkered career, from junior college history instructor, to newspaper editorial staff (it's not hard to be the entire editorial staff when the paper comes out once a week), to paralegal for a rural prosecutor. Aside from "Mum," and "Gigi" to the grandboys - the jobs that never end - she likes writing books the best.

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      I really enjoyed this. I had throughly enjoyed the first book in the series, The Compass Rose and was looking forward to this one, atlhough I didn't have time to read it for a lot longer than I would have liked. This series uses the group marriage as the fundamental family basis of its society and Dayton does it beautifully, weavimg it into the story without using it as a shock tactic. Kallista and her ever-growing illian have problems, issues and lots of love which makes them a powerful force to do the job Kallista has been given by the One God. This book is the middle in a trilogy (as far as I am aware) and it does show. This is a book about consolidation - Kallista and her illian learn some important lessons (being far apart weakens the whole greatly while having everyone together creates something greater than the sum of its parts) and learn to weave their individual personalities together into a functioning whole. It seems that the god-marked are all together by the end of the book and they now need to make themselves ready for whatever happens in the next book. It'll be out next year and I'm already looking forward to it. This series really works for me. The group family - and yes some group sex - works beautifully. It's not over- or under-emphasised but simply is as part of the world and the tale being told. It was nice to see the the logistics of fitting eight adults (at the point of the book this scene occurred) into the same bed without people falling out or getting elbows in their ribs is not a simple thing.