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Is part of The Castings Trilogy Pamela Freeman , 2007 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Blood Ties
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'The Eleven Domains were forged in blood a thousand years ago. The blood is about to flow again. Bramble is as wild as the animals she follows deep into the forest near her village. Her dark eyes betray her heritage - she's a Traveller, one of the despised original people of the Domains. And for as long as she can remember, she has wanted to take to the Road like her grandfather. But the gods who dwell near the alders always say no ... In Turvite, where the ghosts drift along dark cobbled streets, Ash must leave his parents, and the Road, to begin an apprenticeship with the only person who will accept a Traveller - the scheming, yet irrestible, Doronit. But the gods who linger in the gloomy square have other plans for him ... From different ends of the Eleven Domains, death casts Bramble and Ash on journeys across valleys and mountains, deep into themselves and the dark history of their ancestors.'

Source: Australian 'blurb' from The Castings Trilogy website (Sighted 11/01/10)

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Importance: High

Notes

  • Dedication: To Stephen
  • Epigraph: Thus said the Well of Secrets:
    You want a prophecy? Fine. Here it is. 'The dead will be reborn, the quick and the quickened will both taste blood, the killers will be brought together to confront the killed. The voices of the dead will echo through the world, and the evil dead shall triumph over the evil living.' If we're lucky.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Livre Australia , 2007 .
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      Extent: 372p.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Cover design by Darian Causby. 
      ISBN: 9780733622113 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Orbit US ,
      2008 .
      Extent: 471p.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Includes an excerpt from: Deep Water (pp. 469-471).
      ISBN: 9780316033466; 0316033464
    • London,
      c
      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Orbit ,
      2008 .
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      Extent: 372p.
      ISBN: 9781841497013 (pbk.); 1841497010 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Die Prophezeiung der Steine
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Goldmann ,
      2009 .
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      Extent: 571p.
      Description: illus., maps
      ISBN: 9783442468584

Works about this Work

[Review] Blood Ties Jan Napier , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , August no. 146 2010;

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman Josephine Crowley , Naomi Cooke , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Infinitas Newsletter , July vol. 17 no. 7 2008; (p. 2)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Blood Ties Jill Midolo , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 3 2008; (p. 14)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel ; Deep Water Pamela Freeman , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Blood Ties Edwina Harvey , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , no. 35 2008; (p. 90-91)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
Take Three : Fantasy Colin Steele , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 2 December 2007; (p. 21)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Blood Ties Jarrah Moore , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 87 no. 2 2007; (p. 32)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
Democracy in Action for the Dispossessed Van Ikin , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 October 2007; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Blood Ties Scott Moore , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 October 2007; (p. 11)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Blood Ties Chloe Mauger , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 22 no. 4 2007; (p. 40-41)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
Take Three : Fantasy Colin Steele , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 2 December 2007; (p. 21)

— Review of Blood Ties Pamela Freeman , 2007 single work novel
Freeman's Fantasy Grows Up 2007 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 87 no. 2 2007; (p. 39)
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