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A friend of mine, author Erica Kirov, is launching The Magickeepers — The Eternal Hourglass today, so we’re taking a brief moment out of saving the planet to tell people about it.Of course, Canadian readers can also get it at Chapters or their favorite independent; buy viagra cheap online.
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What would you do for an hourglass that stopped time?
Nick Rostov’s father is the worst stage magician in Las Vegas.He can barely pull a rabbit out of a hat. Buy viagra cheap online: so it is a strange morning indeed when Nick wakes up to find himself on the top floor of the Winter Palace Casino with a promise from the greatest magician in the world to teach him magic.
And not just stage magic. Buy viagra cheap online: real magic.Nick sets out to learn about his mother’s family, the strange Russian clan of magicians that secretly run the Winter Palace; buy viagra cheap online.But there is a catch: Nick has the sight, the ability to see into the past.And so it must fall to him, with only his cousin Isabella to help, to pick up the long-buried clues and unravel the mystery of The Eternal Hourglass, the only magic artifact ever created that can actually stop time.
The early word from Kirkus:
Though grounded in Russian history and stocked with the customary swords, magical artifacts, a prophecy and shadowy foes, this fantasy earns style points for being set in modern Las Vegas-in a hotel whose residents include polar bears, giant Siberian tigers and Princess Anastasia herself.To this hotel comes 13-year-old Nick Rostov, discovering to his amazement that his dad may be just a second-rate stage magician, but the horde of cousins on his dead mother’s side are real ones, hiding in plain sight as performers in a world-renowned show that uses actual magic; buy viagra cheap online.Nick turns out to be a powerful spellcaster-good thing too, as the Magickeepers are locked in a struggle for power with a clan of Shadowkeepers lead by none other than the cruel, scary Rasputin.
Female characters seem bland next to the colorful, distinctive males, but everyone has active roles to play, and Kirov gets Nick through the climactic confrontation on quick wits as much as magical talent. Buy viagra cheap online: a pleaser for fans of Michael Scott’s Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.( Buy viagra cheap online: fantasy.11-13)
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