Ward Against
Destruction (Chronicles of a Reluctant Necromancer, #4)
by Melanie Card
Release Date: 10/05/15
Entangled Teen
Summary from Goodreads:
Ward de’Ath used
to the think that nothing could be more terrible than death. Now he realizes
there are worse
things. Like his never-ending hunger for blood. Even if he conquers the
unbearable
cravings that drive him headlong toward destruction,he’s a wanted man with a
bleak
future.
Assassin Celia
Carlyle learns she is the only one who can protect Ward from disaster. She
loves him–she wants to help him, but no one can tell her how to save him from
himself. And the confusing voices in her head scream to let him go.
But Ward's dark
trials keep mounting. A malevolent evil is rising in the land, threatening to
unleash horror
upon the world. The only way Ward can defeat it, and have the chance to marry
Celia, is by
accepting his fate and becoming the one thing he swore he would never become..
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Books in this
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Five Modern Things My
Fantasy World Doesn’t Have That I Can’t Live Without
Hi there! I’m Melanie Card and I write the Chronicles of a
Reluctant Necromancer series. The fourth and final book in the series, WARD
AGAINST DESTRUCTION, takes place in a fantasy world called the Union of
Principalities. I’m often asked if I’d want to live there and while there’s a
certain romantic appeal—I do write in this world and love the challenges of the
culture and the characters—there are some things I couldn’t live without.
1) Antibiotics and modern surgery. When I was a child I had
a year of strep throat. I’d get strep, need antibiotics to get better, but
within a few weeks of finishing the antibiotics, I’d have strep again. That
marked the end of my tonsils, but without antibiotics and ultimately the
tonsillectomy I could have been very sick for a very long time.
2) Indoor plumbing. I’m not a wilderness girl and one of the
reasons I’m not is because of outhouses. They creep me out. And the idea of
going in the woods to pee creeps me out more. Sure, if I was wealthy in my
world, I could have a chamber pot and someone who cleaned up after me, but...
no, still creeped out by that. The joy of fiction is that I can avoid
mentioning the release of bodily fluids (if I so desire) so my characters
aren’t faced with the choice to pee, at midnight, with the spiders and other
creepy crawlies.
3) Reliable indoor heating. Yep, I’m a wuss. I get cold
easily and don’t think I’d last a winter without indoor heating. While the
average climate of the Union of Principalities is roughly what you’d find in
the Mediterranean, the nights can still get cold and there’s definitely snow at
the Northern Outposts. Again, unless I want to draw attention to it, the cold
doesn’t bother my characters, but I suspect I wouldn’t last long.
4) Chocolate. While there’s wine in my world, there isn’t
any chocolate! I loosely based the world off of Renaissance Europe, and
chocolate, while discovered, wasn’t a wide spread phenomenon yet, so I didn’t
make it readily available. And let’s face it, while I’m happy to visit the
Union, I can’t live without chocolate.
5) Marrying for love. If I was wealthy enough to have a
comfortable life in my world I’d need to marry for political reasons, but if I
don’t have to marry to ensure the political safety for my family and my
family’s people I’m poor and living in conditions mention in point #2.
Political marriages make for excellent conflict potential (which is one of the
reasons I like the time period) but I married my soul mate, a man I have a lot
in common with who I’ve spend the last thirteen years with.
So while I wouldn’t mind visiting my world, I don’t think
I’d like to live there. How about you? Is there a fantasy book world where
you’d like to live?
I have always
been drawn to story telling. In fact, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t
telling a story in my head or on paper. In grade school, we had journal writing
time which I turned into story telling time, weaving tales of magic and
adventure that mimicked the fairy tales and myths that I loved to read. It was
there, with the help of two very special teachers, that I nurtured this love
and started my journey as a writer.
I write fantasy, paranormal romance, and everything in between, seasoned with a good dash of adventure and mystery. Join me on my tales of magic, adventure, and romance.
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