Title: The Ice Mage
Author: Julianne Munich
Date: 2022
Quote: "To enter, one had to possess the magic need to pass through the secret portal."
If you were born with the magical ability either to cover things in ice (which would chill, but not always kill, living creatures) or to turn them into ice (after which they would melt into water), what would your career be? Would you be willing to take a job of freezing convicted offenders on command?
What if their offense was marrying an ordinary human with no magic talent...in eighteenth century France, where people were starting to disbelieve in magic and worship "Reason," but were still inclined to feel that magic might exist and, if it existed, it would be evil, and people who could do magic probably ought to be burned at the stake...?
These are the questions raised in The Ice Mage, which is volume two in a trilogy. If you like the fantasy of an eighteenth-century France where the servants weren't forced to be dirty and ignorant enough to put their employers off, sugar was spooned rather than coming in cubes, and everyone spoke twenty-first-century English, you may want to buy the whole trilogy with its prequel.
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