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The Pages of the Mind (The Uncharted Realms Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jeffe Kennedy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,054 ratings
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 2017 RITA® Award Winner for Best Paranormal Fantasy Romance 

An Orphan's Throne

Magic has broken free over the Twelve Kingdoms. The population is beset by shapeshifters and portents, landscapes that migrate, uncanny allies who are not quite human...and enemies eager to take advantage of the chaos.

Dafne Mailloux is no adventurer--she's a librarian. But the High Queen trusts Dafne's ability with languages, her way of winnowing the useful facts from a dusty scroll, and even more important, the subtlety and guile that three decades under the thumb of a tyrant taught her.

Dafne never thought to need those skills again. But she accepts her duty. Until her journey drops her into the arms of a barbarian king. He speaks no tongue she knows but that of power, yet he recognizes his captive as a valuable pawn. Dafne must submit to a wedding of alliance, becoming a prisoner-queen in a court she does not understand. If she is to save herself and her country, she will have to learn to read the heart of a wild stranger. And there are more secrets written there than even Dafne could suspect...

Praise for The Mark of the Tala

"Magnificent...a richly detailed fantasy world." --RT Book Reviews, 4½ stars, Top Pick

"Well written and swooningly romantic." --Library Journal, starred review
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About the Author

Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author with a writing career that spans decades. She lives in Santa Fe, with two Maine Coon cats, a border collie, plentiful free-range lizards and a Doctor of Oriental Medicine. Jeffe can be found online at JeffeKennedy.com, or every Sunday at the popular Word Whores blog.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01501H3EY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kensington Books (May 31, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 618 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,054 ratings

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Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author whose works include novels, non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award.

Her award-winning fantasy romance trilogy The Twelve Kingdoms hit the shelves starting in May 2014. Book 1, The Mark of the Tala, received a starred Library Journal review and was nominated for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the Rose received a Top Pick Gold and was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014. The third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015. Two more books followed in this world, beginning the spin-off series The Uncharted Realms. Book one in that series, The Pages of the Mind, has also been nominated for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2016 and won RWA’s 2017 RITA® Award. The second book, The Edge of the Blade, released December 27, 2016, and is a PRISM finalist, along with The Pages of the Mind. The next in the series, The Shift of the Tide, will be out in August, 2017. A high fantasy trilogy taking place in The Twelve Kingdoms world is forthcoming from Rebel Base books in 2018.

She also introduced a new fantasy romance series, Sorcerous Moons, which includes Lonen’s War, Oria’s Gambit, The Tides of Bàra, and The Forests of Dru. She’s begun releasing a new contemporary erotic romance series, Missed Connections, which started with Last Dance and continues in With a Prince.

In 2019, St. Martins Press will release the first book, The Orchid Throne, in a new fantasy romance series, The Forgotten Empires.

Her other works include a number of fiction series: the fantasy romance novels of A Covenant of Thorns; the contemporary BDSM novellas of the Facets of Passion; an erotic contemporary serial novel, Master of the Opera; and the erotic romance trilogy, Falling Under, which includes Going Under, Under His Touch and Under Contract.

She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.

Jeffe can be found online at her website: JeffeKennedy.com, every Sunday at the popular SFF Seven blog, on Facebook, on Goodreads and pretty much constantly on Twitter @jeffekennedy. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

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Stephanie H. Raffel
5.0 out of 5 stars Grab this book and a quiet corner. Expect to be wowed.
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2016
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Ah, so much to love about this book! I find it hard to sing its praises without spoiling though. I recommend that you read the first three books in The Twelve Kingdoms series before this in order to fully appreciate the rich backstory and just who this librarian Dafne is. This "minor character" from The Twelve is anything but minor and we quickly learn how clever, smart and diplomatic she can be all the while she is underestimated by those around her. We come to understand the true meaning of "This is why it is perilous to ignore a librarian."

This is above all a fabulous, heart-clenching love story. Ugh! To say more would be a spoiler! Just trust me, that if you love your fantasy to have a very strong and gratifying--and sexy--romantic element then this will leave you well satisfied.

I love a book that actually surprises me. There are some nice twists here that remind me that Kennedy is an outside-the-box thinker, her intelligence and respect for the reader's intelligence apparent throughout.
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Babsbny reads way too much
4.0 out of 5 stars UStorybuilding is spot on
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2016
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This was my first full-length novel by Jeffe Kennedy and I am glad to see that her ability to put together a complete story with a compelling cast of characters was brought forward into this novel. While a standalone book, I feel much would be lost if you didn't at least read the prologue companion novella included in For Crown and Kingdom which tells a little o f the Twelve Kingdoms backstory, but most importantly how Dafne ends uAmp on the island in the first place along with her reasons for loyalty. If you include this backstory Dafne is a much stronger character than is portrayed in this book alone. That was my only real criticism. Storyline well done. Thorough world building. Spelling and grammar spot on. Dafne, never completely resolves her issues from her childhood that color her adulthood thus making her a much weaker character than most heroines of these types of books. This is why I could not give it 5 stars. I needed that extra novella to make me want to really cheer her on.
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Andrea Luhman
5.0 out of 5 stars Need an epic fantasy with a real satisfying romance? This is it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2020
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I give this book five out of five stars for the quality of the fantasy AND the romance story, the compelling narrative, and the characters I was fully invested in. I was thinking about this story when I wasn’t reading it and I had a hard time putting it down. I happily and in good faith can recommend it to my friends, who like myself, often have a hard time finding a satisfying romance inside a real epic fantasy story.

What I love about this story:
1) Thank you and a huge kudos to author Jeffe Kennedy for successfully doing what so many fail at: placing a real romance story inside a real epic fantasy novel. Brava-you did it, and I can’t wait to read more from this series! Seriously, this is an achievement folks. Many an author can create a fantasy novel but “FAIL!” at incorporating a real romance plot or subplot. Many a romance author can create a romantic plot but “FAIL!” at creating anything resembling a fantasy realm or novel. Jeffe Kennedy did what so many have blubbered up in one way or another. In all seriousness, she did what seems like an impossible mission to many. She crafted a fantasy romance and made the idea something totally possible, and I am super grateful. Thank God she has a series and I get to read more. Best of my two-favorite genre’s in one, it’s something I will never tire of and will pay all the money and pre-order many months in advance to have in all the formats I can.
2) The hero and heroine and supporting cast are so real and interesting. There’re no cookie cutter characters in this cast, and I love how the characters are made stronger by having foibles and weaknesses. The action and character reactions are genuine and become one of the true motivators behind never wanting to put this book down.
3) Dragons, there’s a really cool dragon who is important to both the romantic and fantasy plot arch. It’s importance is totally satisfying and significant, which it should be since we’re talking about a dragon.
4) The author took me somewhere exotic that looks nothing like my backyard or anywhere within 300 miles of where I live. I got to experience exotic flowers, beaches, food, volcanoes, clothes, animals, and traditions that were fabulous and hit all the high marks of what I love about the fantasy genre.

Jeffe Kennedy has officially gained a position on my “I freaking love this author” goodreads shelf. I look forward to reading everything released with her name on it.
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Chris Laning
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing plot twist.
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016
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This fourth book of the series actually started out looking quite promising, with a librarian (three cheers for librarians!) who is finally able to dive in and DO what she has always dreamed of doing -- use her genius for research and synthesis to help the new queen change the course of the kingdom.

Only to have the librarian's life go completely off the rails, into a realm where she has been claimed as queen by a foreign island king. Where yes, she has some reason to use her brains, but where her previous life and previous allegiances are completely swept away as if they were nothing.

I loved the first book in this series (Mark of the Tala), and the overall plot arc is really interesting and has a lot of potential. But I was sorry -- and this is from my point of view -- to see increasing instances of "woman has cosmically fantastic sex with man once, falls madly in love" followed by her life undergoing radical change as a result. This particular book is the most extreme case.

Falling in love is of course a major experience for anyone, and it can indeed be life-changing. But I did not like the complete derailing of what I thought was a very promising character to begin with. I value intellect and heart and courage and I don't like plots where discovering a sexual relationship is THE major plot pivot.

I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt and hope that the future books in this series give more opportunities for Dafne to use her powerful gifts of intellect to do what no one else can do.

Belated NOTE: This series does contain explicit sex, if anyone's deciding whether to read it.
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Madame reader
2.0 out of 5 stars Oulà compliqué
Reviewed in France on April 10, 2018
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Pour une fois amazon n'a pas mis quel tome c'était dans la saga... j'ai compris avec la description que c'était une suite mais j'ai pensé que ce serait compréhensible malgré tout comle ce n'était pas précisé quel tome c'était. Une histoire un peu à part qui peut se comprendre sans avoir lu le reste. Et bien non. Un livre compliqué! Je n'ai pas réussi à me mettre dedans et malgré tout l'intérêt que j'ai essayé de mettre à ma lecture je n'ai pas accroché aux personnages. Le style descriptif est intéressant. La saga à l'air détaillée et l'univers décrit approfondi et bien pensé. Peut être qu'en commencant avec le tome 1 j'aurais accroché... mais je trouve que ca traine en longueur et qu'on ne trouve pas la passion que l'on peut avoir avec d'autres auteurs dans le même genre de livre. Vu la description et la promesse d'un superbe livre je suis déçue!
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5.0 out of 5 stars LOVED IT
Reviewed in Australia on March 12, 2020
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i have read this book numerous times and it never ceases to amaze me! love ! i would recommended this book , just try the sample andget hooked!
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Taryn Blackthorne
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic fantasy.
Reviewed in Canada on September 2, 2016
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This was the first book in this series I had read, dropped into the world building of a master. I had to do a little running to catch up but I loved this character, her man, and the world. Highly recommend
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GLah
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, awe inspiring, delectable reading 5 easy stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2016
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I read a short story by Jeffe recently and although it was interesting I felt I needed to have read the previous twelve kingdoms series for it to make sense. Now, now I understand it was a precursor for this delightful tale as it was all about Dafne and so much now makes sense. This book is bursting with interesting, believable characters. Deliciously detailed and epic world building. The romance is as hot, rumbling and explosive as the volcano. The plot is incredibly interesting and addictive. The twists and turns make it a fast un put-down-able read. I fell in love with this book entirely. I truly hope there'll be more.
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Heathercuthbert
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2018
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Great book love the authors writings
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