Silver Throat

by Siri Pettersen, Tara Chace (Translator)

Overview

Imagine having stolen the devil from the world's most powerful people. Deprived them of their source of eternal life. And started a war so fueled by fear and contempt that you are forced to become what you hunt. Juva is marked forever by the man she set free. The devil himself, whose blood gives the vardari eternal life. Now she is drowning in unanticipated consequences: a flood of wolf-sickness, a faltering city council, and the vardari's desperate flight over the last drops. Consumed by grief and rage, she is forced to open the doors to dark, fanatical forces. Juva fights for everything she holds dear, but soon balances on a knife's edge when she realizes that the scar left by Gríf cut far deeper than she imagined . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646906161
Publisher:	Arctis US
Publication date:	02/25/2025
Series:	Vardari , #2
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	412
File size:	955 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Siri Pettersen made her sensational debut in 2013 with the Norwegian publication of Odin's Child, the first book in The Raven Rings trilogy, which has earned numerous awards and nominations at home and abroad. Siri has a background as a designer and comics creator. Her roots are in Finnsnes and Trondheim, but she now lives in Oslo, where you're likely to find her in a coffee shop. According to fellow writers, her superpower is "mega motivation"—the ability to inspire other creative souls.

Editorial Reviews

"Her worlds and intense, scary, beautiful, and gorgeously gritty."

NetGalley Reviewer

"Flawed and conflicted, generous and passionately ethical, Juva is a deeply engaging protagonist for our time."

Kirkus Starred Review

"Pettersen's style is something that makes me tingle with happiness. Her sentences are beautifully written, but without all that flowery and 'oh-im-so-smart' baroque-esque style you see in so many fantasy books. It has something of LeGuin's in it—short mentions of emotions that hit you stronger than any page-long description could. Love it."

Goodreads Reviewer

★ 2024-12-14
After risking her life—and heart—to free Grif inIron Wolf (2023), Juva turns her attention to wolf-sickness, which continues to spread in this translated title from Norway.

Grif was an extraordinary being whose addictive blood sustained the lives of the vardari for centuries and incidentally fueled Náklav’s wolf-sickness epidemic. Now he’s gone, Juva distracts herself from the pain of his betrayal by dispatching the wolf-sick and nurturing her cadre of abandoned girls, fellow blood readers who can sense nearby vardari. Anxious to quell the spreading crisis, Náklav’s rulers order Juva to join forces with Silver Throat, a strange, charismatic priest from far-off Undst whose followers believe he can end the plague. Increasingly suspicious of Silver Throat’s real intentions and his association with Eydala, a vicious rogue vardari, Juva reluctantly allies herself with—and protects—the weakened vardari whom they’ve targeted. As Silver Throat’s plans take shape, Juva discovers Grif left her something—wolf-sickness?—along with three tiny vials of his blood. Fed to the giant stones in Nákla Henge, wolf and human blood fuels world travel and commerce. The vardari stole Grif’s blood to enrich Náklev and achieve immortality—and the price has yet to be paid. This middle volume builds suspense for the climax to come. Pettersen’s richly textured, Norse-infused saga features comprehensive worldbuilding studded with well-developed architectural, cultural, linguistic, and historical details and compelling characters. Flawed and conflicted, generous and passionately ethical, Juva is a deeply engaging protagonist for our time.

Vast in scope, intricately plotted, and utterly original.(Fantasy. 14-adult)

Kirkus Reviews