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Dina has unwillingly inherited her mother’s gift: the ability to elicit shamed confessions simply by looking into someone’s eyes. To Dina, however, these powers are not a gift but a curse. Surrounded by fear and hostility, she longs for simple friendship. But when her mother is called to... read more
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Dina has unwillingly inherited her mother’s gift: the ability to elicit shamed confessions simply by looking into someone’s eyes. To Dina, however, these powers are not a gift but a curse. Surrounded by fear and hostility, she longs for simple friendship. But when her mother is called to... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Dina Tonerre: Shamer's Daughter
- Davin Tonerre: Dina's older brother
- Mellie Tonerre: Dina's younger sister
- Melussina Tonerre: Shamer
- Sasia: Birches' inn keeper's daughter
- Cilla: Birches' Miller's only daughter
- Rikert: Birches' smithy
- Ettie Miller: Birches' Miller's wife, Cilla's mother
- Drakan: Nico's cousin and half- brother, dragon master, bastard child of Lord Ebnezer and Dama Lizea
- Nicodemus: Next in line for control of Dunkirk, new head of Raven clan, accused murderer, son of Castellan Lord Ebnezer, brother-in-law to Adela and uncle to Bian
- Castellan Lord Ebnezer: Murdered father of Nicodemus and Drakan
- Adela: Murdered, widow, daughter-in-law of Lord Ebnezer, pregnant mother of Bian
- Bian: Murdered, 4 year old, would be next in line head of Raven clan after Nico, Nico's and Drakan's nephew, Adela's son, the Castellan's grandson
- Rose: Bastard child that Dina meets, brave, independent, fierce
- Aun: Rose's cruel half-brother
- Dama Lizea: Drakan's mother, Nico's aunt
- Master Maunaus: Alchemist, Nico's old teacher, like a father to Nico
- The Widow: Maunaus's niece
Quotes edit
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“One step, two steps, a slow, writhing waddle, its head lowered, no more than a foot or so off the ground…onward it came,…the long, long body curved like a winding river, huge and glittery…Almost the worst of it was the slowness…I could see its pale yellow eyes clearly now. Slowly it raised its head, swaying from side to side...”
(Dragon)
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First Sentence edit
Strictly speaking, it wasn't really Cilla's fault that I was bitten by a dragon.
Table of Contents edit
One: The Shamer's Brat
Two: The Man From Dunark
Three: Drakan
Four: The Dragon Pit
Five: Bloody Deeds
Six: Even or Uneven
Seven: The Monster
Eight: Peace in a Bottle
Nine: A Very Small Knife
Ten: Lady Death
Eleven: Draco Draco
Twelve:Master Maunus
Thirteen: The Order of the Dragon
Fourteen: The Widow
Fifteen: Chaining a Dragon
Sixteen: The Ice Girl
Seventeen: Footsteps and Shadows
Eighteen: Rose
Nineteen: The Weapons Master
Twenty: Shamer and Shameless
Twenty-one: Home
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 4 in The Shamer Chronicles. (standard series)
Followed by The Shamer's Signet.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lene Kaaberbøl (Author)
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