The Queen's Necklace

This is my favorite book of all time. You can improve your vocabulary in a fun way. The fantasy is based on true events that happened in history but it's all jumble bumbled into a smart, wild, imaginative electronic video game on paper. Entertaining but also intelligent. I love Teresa's stories, and this is her best book in many ways. Reading her books makes me a better writer, and helps me get an A in English.

From the first page to the last this book held my interest. Ms. Edgerton writes with style and panache. Never a dull moment. I couldn't put the book down for long. More! More!!!

The Maglore were beautiful goblins who once ruled the world until their human slaves rebelled. Now they hide, plotting their return to power. Standing against them are a chosen few, Wilrowan, dashing Captain of the Queen's guard who leads another life, his lovely but neglected wife Lilliana, whose magic powers are growing, a tutor with a secret, and a traveling scholar, just to name a few. They must reclaim the various jewels that have kept the world from chaos, or watch all they know be destroyed by an evil power.If you love swashbuckling adventures with a little romance, magic and lots of tense intrigue, you are going to love this novel. There's fencing and fighting, action and romance, and characters who leap off the pages. Buy a copy for yourself. Buy copies for your friends. You will not be disappointed.

Fantasy of Manners returns to the bookstore with this long-awaited new work by Teresa Edgerton. The world is one of courts and courtiers, a patchwork of minor kingdoms, each with its own secret device, the magical key to its prosperity. Each kingdom guards its own secret jealously from the others, but while human spies infest the courts, an older menace plots to win a greater prize: the restoration of the ancient empire of the Maglore goblins, who once ruled them all.This book has it all: intrigue, derring-do, mystery and romance. A delight.

For millenniums the Magore ruled the world with humanity serving as slaves to whatever whims the Goblins had. The power rested in jewels that enabled the Goblins to rule with an iron fist. Mankind, tired of its servitude finally overthrew their oppressors. Almost every Magore was killed and the few survivors fled in exile into the shadows. Fifteen hundred years after the successful uprising, the world consists of a hundred or so kingdoms, duchies, and principalities while the Magore have become mythical creatures that never existed. However, those who endured the purge plan to regain what they lost by having a Goblin princess marry a human king in order to recover the jewels of power. Only a brave few including Captain Wilrovan Krogan (he converses with ravens and his wife Lillian (a sorcerer-physician), stand in the way of success. The world of this epic fantasy is Renaissance Europe complete with intrigue, political infighting, and scholarly learning. The characters are three dimensional and believable within a colorful complex story line. The numerous subplots cleverly tie back to the main theme yet leave some threads so readers can expect a sequel from Teresa Edgerton, a future force within the fantasy genre.Harriet Klausner