The Lady of the Sorrows
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The Lady of the Sorrows is the second book in The Bitterbynde Trilogy
. It is preceded by The Ill-Made Mute
and followed by the last book in the trilogy, The Battle of Evernight
, which closes the trilogy.
Rohain is soon plagued by nightmares of rats that keep on repeating and suspects that they might have been from her past as she frantically tries to remember her past while keeping up with Court intrigue and searching for Thorn.
Meanwhile, she has to deal with a web of petty court politics, and the cruel Dianella who continues to get closer to the truth about Imrhien/Rohain's not-so-noble history.
Around the middle of the book, Rohain is forced to bow to Dianella's blackmail, heading back to Isse Tower in an attempt to find her past. Here she finds Thorn at last, and they have a brief, joyful time together after an unseelie attack on the tower. She then learns that Thorn is, in fact, the King-Emperor himself, and that he had been searching for her as long as she had for him. Fearing for her life, Thorn sends Rohain to the secluded island of Tamhania, which has long been a safe haven of the D'Armancourt Dynasty, to remain in safety while he fights the Namarran army to the North. However during a storm unseelie wights manage to trick Rohain herself into lowering the Island's defenses. The three black birds of unseelie manage to awaken the sleeping volcano upon which the Island resides and the population, Rohain included, must flee.
Escaping narrowly with her life, she flees with Caitri (Daughter of the Keeper of the Keys at Isse Tower) and Viviana (her maidservant) and finds her bracelet of old in the last chapter of the book, and end up stranded in the woods miles from civilization. Finding this item of her past, the gates of her memory finally swing open. She also recalls the reason of her loss of memory, and of her original quest that she set out upon before losing her memory. With the recollection of the half fulfilled quest to reopen the fair realm of old, she sets out to finish what she began.
Bitterbynde
The Bitterbynde is a fantasy trilogy by Australian writer Cecilia Dart-Thornton. It comprises The Ill-Made Mute, The Lady of the Sorrows, and The Battle of Evernight....
. It is preceded by The Ill-Made Mute
The Ill-Made Mute
The Ill-Made Mute is a fantasy novel written by Australian author Cecilia Dart-Thornton. It was first published in 2001, and it was the first in the Bitterbynde Trilogy. The two other books are The Lady of Sorrows and The Battle of Evernight.- Plot summary :...
and followed by the last book in the trilogy, The Battle of Evernight
The Battle of Evernight
The Battle of Evernight is a fantasy novel by Cecilia Dart-Thornton, published in 2003 by Warner Aspect, a division of Time Warner U.S.A., Pan Macmillan U.K., , , Luitingh-Sijthoff, Netherlands, Pipe Verlag, Germany and A.S.T. Publishing, Russia.. It is the third novel in the Bitterbynde trilogy...
, which closes the trilogy.
Plot summary
Lady Rohain of the Isle of Sorrows ( known in the previous book as Imrhien) manages for the first third of the book to make her way rapidly to the King's Court at the city of Caermelor, on a mission to the King-Emperor, while also searching for the handsome Dainnan ranger Thorn who captured her heart.Rohain is soon plagued by nightmares of rats that keep on repeating and suspects that they might have been from her past as she frantically tries to remember her past while keeping up with Court intrigue and searching for Thorn.
Meanwhile, she has to deal with a web of petty court politics, and the cruel Dianella who continues to get closer to the truth about Imrhien/Rohain's not-so-noble history.
Around the middle of the book, Rohain is forced to bow to Dianella's blackmail, heading back to Isse Tower in an attempt to find her past. Here she finds Thorn at last, and they have a brief, joyful time together after an unseelie attack on the tower. She then learns that Thorn is, in fact, the King-Emperor himself, and that he had been searching for her as long as she had for him. Fearing for her life, Thorn sends Rohain to the secluded island of Tamhania, which has long been a safe haven of the D'Armancourt Dynasty, to remain in safety while he fights the Namarran army to the North. However during a storm unseelie wights manage to trick Rohain herself into lowering the Island's defenses. The three black birds of unseelie manage to awaken the sleeping volcano upon which the Island resides and the population, Rohain included, must flee.
Escaping narrowly with her life, she flees with Caitri (Daughter of the Keeper of the Keys at Isse Tower) and Viviana (her maidservant) and finds her bracelet of old in the last chapter of the book, and end up stranded in the woods miles from civilization. Finding this item of her past, the gates of her memory finally swing open. She also recalls the reason of her loss of memory, and of her original quest that she set out upon before losing her memory. With the recollection of the half fulfilled quest to reopen the fair realm of old, she sets out to finish what she began.