The Mapmaker's War is Aoife's (pronounced ee-fah) story, a young woman growing up in an ancient society with ambition to change her life. She loves maps and is adventurous, and is given the chance to do this when in her culture women stay home and raise children. During her travels she happens upon a secretive people who seem to live ideal lives of peace and happiness. They claim to protect a mythic creature, a red dragon who has a hoard of treasure. When Aoife reports their existence, her culture is consumed with the madness of war and conquest. Overcome with guilt on what she has unleashed Aoife tries to warn the peaceful culture and is imprisoned as a traitor. There is plenty of subtext in this story of peace and war, and the madness of invasion, as well as a good fantasy story. I spent one lovely night reading this. ML
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