The Privilege of the Sword
Ellen Kushner
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Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballrooms, brothels and boudoirs.
Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's host and uncle, Alec Campion, aka the Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here - and to him, rules are made to be broken.
When Alec decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage, her world changes forever. Blade in hand, it's up to Katherine to navigate a maze of secrets and scoundrels and to gain the self-discovery that comes to those who master the privilege of the sword.
This is the second volume in a loose trilogy set in a swashbuckling 'Three Musketeers' style world: Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword & The Fall of the Kings.
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Praise for The Privilege of the Sword
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It's beautifully written, breezy, quick, hysterically funny, poignant and bloody and world-weary and heartrendingly naive by turns. This is a fantastic book, a coming-of-age story, and I love it with a quite deep and unreasonable loveOne of the most gorgeous books I've ever read: it's witty and wonderful, with characters that will provoke, charm and delightA magical mixture of Dumas and Georgette Heyer. The dialogue dazzles and so does the swordplayUnholy fun, and wholly fun . . . an elegant riposte, dazzlingly executed
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