But increasingly he finds himself torn between duty and his desire to understand the magic that has been forbidden.Īs kings prepare, exorcists gather, and divisions widen between the warring clans of Ireland, Aisling and Jordan must come to terms with powers given and withheld, while a world that can still foster magic hangs in the balance. Jordan, the Vatican commander tasked with vanquishing the remnants of otherworldly creatures from a disenchanted Europe, has built a career on such plots.
Both England and Rome have a stake in driving magic from the Emerald Isle. But within medieval Ireland interests are divided, and far from its shores greater forces are mustering.
What became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical mysteries, The Last Days of Magic brilliantly imagines answers to these questions, sweeping us back to a world where humans and magical beings co-exist as they had for centuries.Īisling, a goddess in human form, was born to rule both domains and-with her twin, Anya-unite the Celts with the powerful faeries of the Middle Kingdom. “Plundering the treasure chest of human myths, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.” Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. an honest, beautifully detailed book and an entertaining read.” OL20020541W Page_number_confidence 93.87 Pages 410 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211210153224 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 502 Scandate 20211209063527 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780525429531 Tts_version 4.“Fantastic. Urn:lcp:lastdaysofmagic0000tomp_w2n2:epub:a4d2cd2f-86c4-4dda-a2cf-1ab09f689216 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lastdaysofmagic0000tomp_w2n2 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s21fq4tqfqq Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780525429531Ġ525429530 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9641 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA401828 Openlibrary_edition
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