Odalisque (novel)

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Odalisque
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Odalisque first edition cover.
Author Fiona McIntosh
Cover artist Greg Bridges
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Series Percheron
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
26 October 2005 [1]
Media typePrint (Trade paperback and paperback)
Pages592 pp (first edition)
ISBN 0-7322-8180-6
Followed by Emissary  

Odalisque is a 2005 fantasy novel by Fiona McIntosh and the first in the Percheron series.

Fiona McIntosh is an author of adult and children's books who lives in Australia. She was born in Brighton, England and between the ages of three and eight, travelled a lot to Africa due to her father's work. At the age of nineteen, she travelled first to Paris and later to Australia, where she has lived ever since. In 2007, she released a crime novel, Bye Bye Baby, under the pseudonym of Lauren Crow, however the pen name has since been dropped for the republished edition of Bye Bye Baby and for the sequel, Beautiful Death.

Percheron (series)

Percheron is a fantasy trilogy first released in 2005 by Australian fantasy author Fiona McIntosh. The story takes place in the exotic Percheron where the gods are once again arising to do battle for the future. Thrust into the centre of this epic battle is Lazar, and his beloved Ana.

Contents

Plot summary

The story begins with a slave driver attempting to sell his latest finds, including a foreign captive known only as Lazar. Hot tempered and confident, Lazar invokes his right to a fight to the death that, if he wins, will grant him his freedom. Zar Joreb, Percheron's leader decides to attend the fight and is so impressed by the demonstrated fighting skills that he offers Lazar the elite position of Spur.

Reception

Writing for The Sun-Herald newspaper, Genevieve Swart gave Odalisque a positive review, stating "the book races off to a good start, leaving us on tenterhooks awaiting the next page-turner", while also noting that McIntosh's "torture scenes might want to come with a warning, so horrifying are the descriptions of medieval-style brutality". [2] Reviewing the novel for The Age newspaper, Cameron Woodhead described the series as "competent" and "fast-paced", but was critical of how accurately Islamic history was portrayed. [3]

<i>The Sun-Herald</i>

The Sun-Herald is an Australian newspaper published in tabloid or compact format on Sundays in Sydney, New South Wales by Nine Publishing. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 6 months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, its circulation had dropped to 443,257 as of December 2009 and to 313,477 as of December 2010, from which its management inferred a readership of 868,000. Readership continued to tumble to 264,434 by the end of 2013, and has half the circulation of rival The Sunday Telegraph.

<i>The Age</i> Melbourne daily newspaper

The Age, a daily newspaper, has been published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, since 1854. Owned and published by Nine, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in hardcopy and in online formats. The newspaper shares many articles with other Nine Publishing metropolitan daily newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald.

Odalisque was included in the 2006 Books Alive Great Read Guide. [4] In September 2006, it was rated as the seventh most popular fantasy novel in Australia by Nielsen BookScan. [5]

Nielsen BookScan

Nielsen BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry, owned by the Nielsen Company. BookScan compiles point of sale data for book sales.

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References

  1. ↑ "Odalisque". HarperCollins Australia. Archived from the original on 6 September 2006. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  2. ↑ Swart, Genevieve (11 December 2005). "Double fantasy of thrills, mystery". The Sun-Herald. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Woodhead, Cameron (2 December 2006). "Fiction". The Age. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  4. ↑ Swart, Genevieve (14 January 2007). "Gruesome fantasy belies a gentle soul". The Sun-Herald. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "Top 10 fantasy". The Sun-Herald. 24 September 2006. Retrieved 29 May 2011.


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