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Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once, in different languages, but she keeps her talents hidden at her grandparents' behest.
Naftaly Cresques sees things that aren't real, and dreams things that are. Always made to feel like the family disappointment, Naftaly would still risk his life to honor his father's last wishes.
After the Queen demands every Jew convert or face banishment, Toba and Naftaly are among thousands of Jews who flee their homes. Defying royal orders to abandon all possessions, Toba keeps an amulet she must never take off; Naftaly smuggles a centuries-old book he's forbidden to read. But the Inquisition is hunting these particular treasures—and they're not hunting alone.
Toba stumbles through a pomegranate grove into the mirror realm of the Maziks: mythical, terrible immortals with an Inquisition of their own, equally cruel and even more powerful. With the Mazik kingdoms in political turmoil, this Inquisition readies its bid to control both realms.
In each world, Toba and Naftaly must evade both Inquisitions long enough to unravel the connection between their family heirlooms and the Mazik realm.
Their fates are tied to this strange place, and it's up to them to save it.
Brimming with folkloric wonder, The Pomegranate Gate weaves history and magic into a spellbindingly intricate tale suffused with wit, warmth, and heart.
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- ISBN: 9798889565963
- File size: 562248 KB
- Duration: 19:31:20
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- English
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July 3, 2023
YA author Kaplan (We Are the Perfect Girl) draws readers into a bewitching folkloric world in her enthralling adult debut and Mirror Realm Cycle series launch. After the Queen of Sefarad issues an edict expelling her kingdom’s Jewish citizens, Naftaly Cresques, a tailor’s son with the secret ability to travel the dream world, smuggles a treasured book and flees, while fragile but brilliant Toba Peres escapes with her grandparents and her childhood amulet. Wolves separate Toba from the group and she follows two strange men to safety through a gate into an alternate realm where the Maziks, or magic users, reside. Trapped until the next full moon, Toba must trust wise astrologer Asmel b’ Asmoda and his charming nephew Barsilay b’Droer to protect her, both of whom are shocked to discover that Toba may have magical abilities of her own. Meanwhile, Naftaly aids Toba’s grandmother by navigating the dream world to search for Toba before they’re all discovered. The plot has a tendency to meander and then suddenly accelerate, creating some uneven pacing, but the worldbuilding is lush and exciting and the dynamics between the leads charm. (Toba and “popinjay” Barsilay have some especially choice banter.) This spells good things for the series to come. Agent: Hannah Bowman, Liza Dawson Assoc.
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