Kristen Britain: Mirror Sight

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Britain's Green Rider series featuring Karigan G’ladheon continues to be enjoyable. The series is set in one of those more-or-less generic pre-industrial vaguely European fantasy worlds, with elves and magic and such. Karigan is a member of the elite messenger core in service to the king of Sacoridia, but her adventures to date have shown her to be possessed with more talent both for magic and for getting into risky situations where the very future of the kingdom than is found in the average Green Rider.

In the last novel, Blackveil, Karigan was part of a group of humans and elves investigating the possible reawakening of a powerful dark wizard, enemy to both humans and elves. In order to keep a powerful artefact out of the wizard's hands, Karigan destroys it, and in releasing its power in such a fashion, flings the survivors of her party through space - and, as we learn in this volume, through time.

In fact, Karigan and one of her elvish companions are sent 200 years into Sacoridia's future, where they find a future empire built on slavery and almost empty of magic - a future so abhorrent that Karigan will sacrifice anything to return to her own time and try to change the course of history.

Looking forward now to volume six.