The setting isn't gender egalitarian, since women have only recently been admitted into universities. I especially wanted to see more of Madele! All their backstories are full of plot hooks and I wanted to read those stories too. quickwitted actress, eagle-eyed investigator, antihero revenge-obsessed criminal mastermind-but they have a lot of personality, act and speak believably, and don't feel like stock characters. The characters get much of their appeal from archetypes-e.g. Nicholas and his gang have to turn their considerable talents to finding and stopping this sinister new player. But it seems someone is using his foster father's research for an evil purpose. Now he's close to his ultimate goal: revenge on the man who framed his foster father for necromancy. Even the help of Ile-Rien's greatest sorcerer may not be enough, for Nicholas faces a woefully mismatched battle-and unthinkable horrors await the loser. Nicholas and his compatriots must destroy an ancient and awesome evil. And when a spiritualist unwittingly leads Nicholas to a decrepit mansion, the monstrous nature of his peril finally emerges in harrowing detail. Children vanish, corpses assume the visage of real people, mortal spells are cast, and traces of necromantic power that hasn't been used for centuries are found. Someone with tremendous magical powers is opposing him. But now Nicholas's murderous mission is being interrupted by a series of eerie, unexplainable, even fatal events. Montesq orchestrated the wrongful execution of Nicholas's beloved godfather on false charges of necromancy-the art of divination through communion with spirits of the dead-a practice long outlawed in the kingdom of Ile-Rien. On the gaslight streets of the city, Nicholas assumes the guise of a master criminal, stealing jewels from wealthy nobles to finance his quest for vengeance: the murder of Count Montesq. He is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past.
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