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Water Logic

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The Elemental Logic series continues with its third novel in the series, Water Logic, where the patterns of history are made and unmade.

Laurie Marks' Elemental Logic series introduced readers in Fire Logic to the realm of Shaftal, an intricately imagined land whose people operate within the boundaries of their basic natures—here defined as logics—which sometimes bequeath them with access to magical, elemental powers and sometimes embroil them in unsolvable internal conflicts.

Readers will discover inside Water Logic that amid assassinations, rebellions, and the pyres of too many dead, a new government has formed in Shaftal—a government of soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, all weary of war and longing for peace. But some cannot forget their losses, and some cannot imagine a place for themselves in an enemy land. Before memory, before recorded history, something happened that now must be remembered. Zanja na'Tarwein, the crosser of boundaries, born in fire and wedded to earth, has fallen under the ice. Now, by water logic, the logic of patterns repeated, of laughter and music, the lost must be found—or the found may forever be lost.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 21, 2007
      Picking up the threads left loose at the end of Earth Logic
      (2004), Marks's third Elemental Logic tale weaves three story lines through her tapestry of a war-torn world whose elemental forces are dangerously out of balance. Clement, reluctant general of the Sainnite army occupying Shaftal, has made peace with Karis, the Shaftali G'deon, and now seeks to suppress insurrection in her ranks and legitimize the leadership role thrust upon her. Meanwhile, Clement's lover Seth pursues an assassin who nearly murdered Karis. In the story's most fantastic subplot, fire witch Zanja na'Tarwein must discover why a rogue water elemental has transported her some 200 years back in time. Marks plays the fantasy of her unfolding epic more subtly here than in previous volumes, and the resulting depiction of intransigent cultures in conflict, rich with insight into human nature and motives, will resonate for modern readers.

    • Library Journal

      June 15, 2007
      The war between the Sainnites and the Shaftali has ended with a Sainnite victory and a gesture of peace and reconstruction. As Sainnite General Clement renews her relationship with Shaftali cow doctor Seth, now a Councilor from her village, forces are working to undermine the peace and end the life of Karis, the new Shaftali G'deon, the woman who agreed to peace with her country's enemies. When an earth-blooded prophet gets lost beneath the ice and is transported to another time, she finds that she holds the key to solving the problems of the "future," if she can only discover a means of communicating through time. The third installment, after "Fire Logic" and "Earth Logic", in Marks's "Elemental Logic" series, explores the relationship of water, an element that travels through space and time, to those people who share its qualities or who oppose its power. Finely drawn characters and a lack of bias toward sexual orientation make this a thoughtful, challenging read that belongs in most adult fantasy collections.

      Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      Starred review from July 1, 2007
      The Sainnites and the Shaftal have been enemies for ages, but when Karis was declared Gdeon, it became her responsibility to find a way to bring peace to the divided land, which she has, tentatively. The two peoples share land and work, but old hatreds smolder. And then a would-be assassin tries to kill Karis, and things get crazy. Clement, general of Karis army, faces off with old friend but now rival general Heras over control of five mutinied garrisons now under Heras. Clement is killed and restored to life, but now she has lost all courage. Karis restores that courage at the increasing expense of Clements mental health. The general, sound for some time after Karis touches her head, eventually becomes stupid; Karis can restore her again, but each successive relapse is worse. Meanwhile, a water witch steals Karis wife, Zanja, and transports her 200 years into the past, in which she has her own parallel adventures that affect the future; that is, her natural present. How gifts from the past, often unknown or unacknowledged, bless future generations; how things that look like disasters or mistakes may be parts of a much bigger pattern that produces greater, farther-reaching good resultssuch is the theme of Marks sweeping fantasy, which reaches its third volume with this successor to Fire Logic (2002) and Earth Logic (2004).(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)

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