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Starred Review. Park's fascinating, sharply written third novel set in an alternate-reality German-occupied "Roumania" (after 2006's The Tourmaline) finds 15-year-old Miranda Popescu in danger of being used as a pawn in a complicated political game. Once a girl from Berkshire County, Mass., before her mysterious displacement to this strange land where alchemy really works, she tries to hold onto the person she was while developing her new potential, especially by exploring the shadowy secret world of animal souls that underlies daily reality. With the help of her friends Chevalier de Graz (previously Peter Gross in the Berkshires) and the shape-shifting Lieutenant Prochenko (once a girl known as Andromeda), she resists her chief antagonist, the memorable, cunning Baroness Ceausescu. Though Park makes few concessions for new readers to this series, the surprising and convincing character-driven action will seize the imagination of fans and newcomers alike. (Jan.)
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Park's third contemporary fantasy about an adolescent girl's rediscovery of her royal identity in an alternate universe, "Roumania," begins where The Tourmaline (2006) left off. After magical transportation from contemporary Massachusetts to an untamed eighteenth-century North America, Miranda Popescu has endured separation from two best friends by embracing her role as the promised savior of Roumania and sowing the seeds of resistance against the villainous baroness Ceausescu, who threatens to supplant her. Now, while saving a friend from enemy soldiers, Miranda allows herself to be captured and delivered into the baroness' scheming hands. Miranda's confinement proves fortuitous when she stumbles across the powerful, history-changing magic stone known as the tourmaline. In captivating and lucid prose, Park constructs a richly complex world straddling the borderline between magic and reality, all the while peppering the narrative with inventive twistings of alchemy and Judeo-Christian myths. Readers who have come this far will be primed for the inevitable stirring climax of Miranda's odyssey next year. Carl Hays
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