Some readers will thrill to this adventure others might find it wearying. Clarke's world is a hodgepodge of genre tropes, and the plot is similarly jumbled, resolved by an unlikely deus ex machina. Missteps and miscommunications dog their slow-burn romance at every turn. Naji and Ananna's relationship grows fraught as they get nearer to completing the tasks one of which, of course, is to experience true love's kiss. After battles on land and sea, a wizard on a floating island tells Naji and Ananna that the curse can only be broken by completing three impossible tasks. This act triggers a curse laid on him years before: Naji has to protect her life at all costs, and knowing Ananna's in danger causes him incapacitating pain. While fighting for her life, Ananna, a young pirate woman, accidentally saves Naji, the man sent to kill her. Originally, these novels were published by Strange Chemistry, the YA branch of Angry Robot Books, but the imprint went defunct (as sometimes happens) and the publication rights to their. This high-seas picaresque, an omnibus of two previously published novels, is replete with assassins, blood magic, manticores, talking sharks, and pretty much anything else a reader might imagine. Magic of Blood and Sea (2017) combines two of Cassandra Rose Clarke’s novels, The Assassin’s Curse (2012) and The Pirate’s Wish (2013), into one volume.
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