An Unexpected Apprentice by Jodi Lynn Nye 400 pages Hardcover Tor Books $25.95 US ISBN 9780765314338

    If it were permissible to warm potential readers of a book by using a single line from the text as an example of the lameness that waited inside the covers, An Unexpected Apprentice would be done right about after this doozy, written without a drop of irony or self-mocking:

Right here, now, in front of the altar of Nature, he apologized on behalf of his species. p. 333

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