Belladonna (novel)

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Belladonna
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Cover of Belladonna by Anne Bishop
Author Anne Bishop
Cover artistLarry Rostant
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Landscapes of Ephemera
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher Roc Books
Publication date
2007
Published in English
March 2007
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages502 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN 0-7322-8373-6 (paperback edition)
OCLC 225563419
Preceded by Sebastian  

Belladonna is the second book in Anne Bishop's Landscapes of Ephemera. Following Sebastian , Belladonna continues the story of the battle between the Light and Dark of Ephemera, and Glorianna Belladonna's struggle to destroy, or cage the Eater of the World before it can convert the worlds into a massive playground to use for its own dark purposes. Belladonna also introduces into the duology Michael, a wandering musician who seeks the answer to the riddle that has been haunting his dreams, and whose arrival into the lives of all the original characters has catastrophic and far-reaching consequences for everyone.

Contents

Plot

Book ends with Belladonna making herself even more evil than the Eater of the World inside of the school that she had been kicked out of in the events of Sebastian. She traps the Eater of the World and somehow Michael finds a way to bring her back to the world.

Characters

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