Mélusine is the first book in The Doctrine of Labyrinths by Sarah Monette. It was originally written in English, and at some point (seemingly around 2009) translated into Chinese by 李天奇, and the edition included a new cover and a map. Mélusine was re-released as an English ebook for general sale under Monette's pseudonym, Katherine Addison, with an entirely new cover, on July 11, 2023.
Summary[]
Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But his aristocratic peers don't know his dark past — how his abusive former master enslaved him, body and soul, and trained him to pass as a nobleman. Within the walls of the Mirador — Mélusine's citadel of power and wizardry — Felix believed he was safe. He was wrong. Now, the horrors of his previous life have found him and threaten to destroy all he has since become...
Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. Raised as a kept-thief and trained as an assassin, he escaped his Keeper long ago and lives on his own as a cat burglar. But now he has been caught by a mysterious foreign wizard using a powerful calling charm. And yet the wizard was looking not for Mildmay — but for Felix Harrowgate...
Thrown together by fate, the broken wizard Felix and the wanted killer Mildmay journey far from Mélusine through lands thick with strange magics and terrible demons of darkness. But it is the shocking secret from their pasts, linking them inexorably together, that will either save them, or destroy them...
Details[]
See: Articles relating to Mélusine
Mélusine includes a wide cast of characters, multiple belief systems, locations, and associations.
It is narrated by Felix and Mildmay.
Characters[]
- Agnes Bellarmyn
- Esmond
- Felix Harrowgate
- Gideon Thraxios
- Luke
- Malkar Gennadion
- Mildmay
- Robert of Hermione
- Shannon Teverius
- Stephen Teverius
- Thaddeus de Lalage
- Vida Eoline
Locations[]
Quotations[]
Trivia[]
- The Chinese translation's ISBN-10 is 7552004061
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