Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts.
After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the snarled, haunted waterways of Venice, Italy to locate Séverin. Meanwhile, Séverin must balance the deranged whims of the Patriarch of the Fallen House and discover the location of a temple beneath a plague island where the Divine Lyre can be played and all that he desires will come to pass.
With only ten days until Laila expires, the crew will face plague pits and deadly masquerades, unearthly songs and the shining steps of a temple whose powers might offer divinity itself...but the price of godhood may just cost them everything they hold dear.
羅沙尼•喬克西回到她在紐時暢銷書《鍍金狼》中黑暗而迷人的十九世紀,在最後一個引人入勝的故事中讓讀者目眩神迷,這個故事和《青銅野獸》中一樣充滿神秘和危險。
在塞維琳看似背叛之後,船員們四分五裂。安立奎、萊拉、希普諾斯和佐菲亞必須憑著一點線索穿過意大利威尼斯縱橫交錯、幽靈出沒的水道去找到塞維琳。在此同時,塞維琳必須平衡「傾頹之家」的族長的瘋狂想法,並在瘟疫島下找到寺廟的位置,如果在那裡演奏神聖的七弦琴,他的願望將會實現。
距離萊拉消逝只剩十天的時間了,船員們將面臨萬人塚和致命的化裝舞會、天上仙曲和神廟的閃亮台階,它的力量將帶來神性……但神性的代價可能會讓他們付出珍貴的一切。
(文字整理/文謙益)