White Tyger, The

The White Tyger by Paul Park Fantasy/Coming of Age Tom Doherty Assoc., 2007, 304 pp., $25.95 ISBN: 0765315298

Baroness Nicola Ceausescu is battling to maintain her power amid political upheaval in Romania. The kingdom's rightful heir, Miranda Popescu, has been magically transported from her parallel life in Berkshire County, accompanied by the Chevalier de Graz and Lieutenant Prochenko, (in the Berkshires, Peter and Andromeda), pledged by slain Prince Frederick von Schenck to protect his daughter. Baroness Ceausescu uses sorcery and cunning to destroy Miranda, who must navigate a hidden world of surreal dreamscapes inhabited by sorcerers and shape-shifters to discover the powers that will make her mission successful.

Park spins a complex, exciting tale peopled by richly drawn characters-evil yet sympathetic, noble yet flawed. Readers might benefit from his two previous novels in this four-book sequence.

Dana Waters

Fowler, KS

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