The Hollow Bettle (Poisons of Caux (Quality))
- 400 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The Hollow Beetle, originally published in 2009, offers a complete description of its content.
Veneno de CauxSerie
Embárquese en un viaje al reino de Caux, una tierra inmersa en el veneno y la tiranía. Siga a una valiente joven protagonista en su búsqueda de su tío desaparecido, navegando por una corte traicionera gobernada por el Rey Nightshade. En este mundo donde la supervivencia depende de dominar el arte de los venenos y antídotos, descubre peligrosos secretos y poderosos elixires. Esta cautivadora serie de fantasía combina magia oscura, saber herbario y emocionante aventura con un toque de humor irónico.
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The Poisons of Caux - 2: The Tasters Guild
- 384 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The Poisons of Caux, Book IIA macabre and funny fantasy trilogyAfter the perilous adventure of The Hollow Bettle (Book I), the dark reign of the Nightshades is over at last, and a new day has arrived in Caux, a land long ruled by poison and deceit. The ancient Prophecy-the coming of a Noble Child to cure the one, true King-has finally begun.But fear still grips the people of Caux, for they live in the shadow of the powerful, poisonous Tasters' Guild. Sequestered high within its corrupt walls sits Vidal Verjouce, the Guild's diabolical Director, his dark magic more potent than ever. Eleven-year-old Ivy, famed healer and Noble Child, and her friend and taster Rowan must venture inside the Guild itself if they are to find the door to their sister world, Pimcaux-and fulfill the Prophecy. But a deadly weed-once thought extinct-threatens their scourge bracken, a plant dedicated to domination and destruction, also known, ominously, as Kingmaker. Who else has detected it? And will Ivy's remarkable gift-her dominion over plants and nature-be enough to thwart it?Susannah Appelbaum's imagination soars with poison inks, flower codes, catacombs, secret crypts, and sinister twists in this middle volume of the macabre and magical Poisons of Caux fantasy trilogy.
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The Poisons of Caux - 3: The Shepherd of Weeds
- 464 páginas
- 17 horas de lectura
Back in the Kingdom of Caux after her journey to its sisterland, Ivy wakes up in a dismal orphanage alongside her friend Rue. Accompanied by a strange woman named Lumpen—who looks suspiciously like a scarecrow—the girls make their way back to Templar to plan a massive battle against the Tasters Guild, where Vidal Verjouce is making ink out of the deadly Scourge Bracken weed. Rocamadour grows darker and more dangerous with every drop. With an army of scarecrows, a legion of birds, and her friends and uncle by her side, it's up to Ivy—the true "Shepherd of Weeds"—to wage war against the Guild, defeat her own father, and restore order to the plant world. Susannah Appelbaum's imagination soars in this stunning and utterly satisfying final volume of the Poisons of Caux trilogy. From the Hardcover edition.
