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The City in the Lake

Can love break the curse created by powerful dark magic?
And, can a kingdom survive when its prince, who is considered the heart of the king, is gone missing?
With this heart-rending tale of courage, love and magic, author Rachel Neumeier pulls off the key to winning in the world of fantasy fiction. The City in the Lake is a beautiful insignia of a truly elating and worthwhile read.
My fascination with simplicity and the common life is reassured by this strikingly written epic chronicle that allows me to get acquainted with Timou, a young and keen girl learning to become a mage under the tutelage of his mage father. Her life in an idyllic village portrays and inspires a very refreshing impression, and maybe interesting from a different perspective. It makes me remember home and the neighbors and the usual mundane experiences. Like a typical individual, Timou has needs and longings, but her gift and the truth about who she really is makes her different from her peers. And when the time comes that she has to face her destiny, she has no choice but to follow the whispers of magic.
The Prince’s disappearance brings about unthinkable occurrences in the Kingdom. The ancient magic whispering around its borders to Timou’s peaceful village creates ripples—a blight that challenges her father, a mage, to travel and attempt to make things right. But he never returns. And so, she has to leave her village—and probably her love—to find him. Everything, the disturbance in the kingdom, links to her and she believes this has something to do with the mother she has never known.
She walks through the vast, dark and enchanted forest, passes through villages different from hers, and reaches the City only to face a power much greater than hers—and a compelling truth she must dare triumph and understand. She will be trapped and she will discover something, yet she must find a way and struggle to live in order to free her people and fight alongside the brother she just met, her found Prince and the ensnared King. But will they be able to vanquish such a formidable foe?
In The City in the Lake, Neumeier has written an equally gripping and sweet narrative suffused with stories of family and relationships, love and tragedy, and magic and bravery that will charm and delight the readers all at once. Certainly, you will be captivated by its wonderfully chiseled characters, mysteriously fashioned backdrop, and the efficiently woven storyline.


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