Mirna Z. (otherworldgirl) reviewed on
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Lisa Goldstein blends fantasy with historical intrigue in this tale of 1590s London with its two competing courts: that of Elizabeth I and that of Oriana, Queen of Faerie. A faery prince is missing, and a man who claims to be the rightful king sets Elizabeth's spies a formidable task. Historical figures (Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and others) rub shoulders with fictional ones, both fae and human (especially Alice Wood, widowed bookseller, only female member of the Stationers' Company, and mother of a changeling).
