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Rutkoski, Marie. The Jewel of the Kalderash. New York: Farrar Strauss & Girroux, 2011.

I borrowed this, the final volume in the Kronos Chronicles, from [personal profile] shveta_writes as usual. This final volume sends Petra, Neel and Tomik to the Roma homeland in India (and then, eventually, back again to Europe), and mostly resolves a number of plot threads along the way. I would happily read more books about Petra, but it seems clear from the denouement of this book that this is the end. I really enjoyed the previous books in the series, and if you're looking for alternate Renaissance historical fantasy with clockwork spiders, scheming sorcerers, and intrigue galore, I recommend these books highly.

I share Shveta's complaint that, for all that a good chunk of the book takes place in India, there's very little of India about the setting, though this lampshaded in text by the Roma living on an island. I thoroughly enjoyed Petra, Astrophil, Neel, Tomik and their friends and enemies (there are a number of great characters, both male and female, introduced in this volume), and I liked the ending to their stories too, and the fact that the gains made are not without cost. I will definitely be on the lookout for more of Rutkoski's books.
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