[ SECRET POST #2006 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2006 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 135 secrets from Secret Submission Post #287.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Theodora, the protagonist, is an anthropology grad student who has come to Ivory because it's the only planet where magic is known to work, only to get stranded there--not, as I recalled, because her funding was cut, but simply because she was robbed and now, without money or documents, is trying to scrape a living and earn her passage back home by telling fortunes in the marketplace. Then an Ivoran aristocrat, Ran, offers her a job reading cards for him. It's a much better prospect, but of course, it has plenty of complications, involving family enemies, a curse and other little details like that. It's been a while since I read it, but IIRC, it ends with a duel between Ran and the antagonist--who I think was his cousin or half-brother or something.

It's a trilogy--Gate of Ivory, Two-Bit Heroes, and Guilt-Edged Ivory--but the first can be read on its own. (I haven't read the sequels, myself.)

Here's Jo Walton's review:

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/i-refuse-to-die-wearing-provincial-trousers-doris-egans-ivory-books

and another one from the blog TheHathorLegacy:

http://thehathorlegacy.com/the-gate-of-ivory-doris-egan/