Melody Murray's Books

I liked this book every bit as well as I remembered. It's as layered as an onion, complex, full of satisfying and memorable characters deployed in a world that's rich and believable.The magic is well-thought out. There are plot twists in plenty- as there should be when there's a dispossessed Prince in a band of itinerant musicians. There are brave and noble women with complicated lives. Beyond the well-told story, though, what this book seems to me to be is an exploration of loyalty and honor and what one can do when rebellion seems impossible. The plot device- a sorcerer takes away the ability for people not born in a town to hear or speak the former name of the town- calls to mind the schools for Native Americans wherein the kids were prevented from speaking their own language, from learning their own culture, and as such it's a pretty profound meditation on the human spirit.