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Blackcurrant Fool (Greenwing & Dart Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Victoria Goddard (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
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Magic is out of fashion. Orio City is where that's decided.

When his best friend Mr. Dart unexpectedly needs to make an urgent trip to Orio City, Jemis Greenwing's immediate response to ask when. He's willing to make up to his grandmother so she will lend them her falarode, he's willing to offer to run the errands of half the barony, and he's certainly willing to spend a week or so away from the gossips of Ragnor Bella.

It's such a pity that Jemis and Mr. Dart are more than halfway to Orio City before Jemis remembers that his vindictive ex-lover Lark is a rising star in the criminal courts of Orio City. It's an even greater pity when they realize just what her new position is in the legally instituted court there.

What with the dragon Jemis slayed a month ago, his consequent ascension to the position of Viscount St-Noire, and his father's very recent second return from the dead, to say nothing of that still-famous play from the summer, Three Years Gone: the Tragicomedy of the Traitor of Loe, it's really too much to hope for that Jemis will be able to spend even three days in the old capital incognito.

University students. Bear baiting. Unexpected relations. Wild magic. Literary criticism. Kittens. And always that whisper from the highwaymen of the Arguty Forest that someone's death is on the line ...

Book Four of Greenwing & Dart, fantasies of manners--and mischief.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B081GJPNGX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Underhill Books (November 13, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 13, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 572 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 332 ratings

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Victoria Goddard is a fantasy novelist, gardener, and occasional academic. She has a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto, walked across the length of England in 2013, and is currently a writer, cheesemonger, and gardener in the Canadian Maritimes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Black currant Fool by Victoria Goddard
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023
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Greenwing & Dart book 4. These books just keep getting better. I don't want to give anything away because they're such happy books you just have to read and experience them for yourself. What are you waiting for, go, read, now
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Pat D.
4.0 out of 5 stars Well, this explains a lot
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2020
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As each Greenwing and Dart book has come out I’ve gone back and reread the earlier ones in the series. Stargazy Pie was a deliriously confusing book, wonderful, but with all kinds of half-understood side stories running through it. Each subsequent book has unveiled a few of the mysteries. This book has Jemis explain what was going on before, in asides scattered throughout the book, and also gives a fairly clear description of what is going on in the current book. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it’s good to know what’s going on, and why. On the other hand following the previous breadcrumbs of clues to figure things out was a lot of fun. Greenwing and Dart are wonderful as the two friends at the heart of this story. The weaving in of all the side characters is delightful.
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Richard P. Jasper
5.0 out of 5 stars Topnotch
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2023
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The only thing I don't understand is why I started with "The Hands of the Emperor" instead of Greenwing and Dart. The first hundred pages or so would have made much more sense!
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A Teacher
5.0 out of 5 stars The series gets even better with this volume
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021
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The first three books in this series were charming. This book goes to an entirely different level. The puzzle poetry theme is great, and the last few chapters are even better. Somehow, the depth of this volume works backwards to make the previous three books deeper as well, since everything in this book was prepared for in the previous books. Our hero, Jemis, loves architectural poetry, and Goddard is an architectural author.
For an even bigger picture, read all her fiction and watch how it all fits together into one increasingly complex and beautiful structure.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful addition to the saga.
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2020
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Jemis and his friend Mr Dart to to Tara. Tara will never be the same.
I love Victoria Goddard's writing. This book, the fourth in the Greenwing and Dart series, does not disappoint. From the very first chapter when Mr Dart discovers an unexpected relative through to some very unexpected twists at the end the tale is well up to the high standard of the previous 3.
I also thoroughly enjoy the occasional nugget of a reference to characters and events in her other books.
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Rachel Gollub
4.0 out of 5 stars The plot thickens
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2021
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This starts right after the last, and Jemis agrees to go with Mr. Dart to meet his niece. And walks right into a number of awkward and enlightening situations, as usual. This was a pretty frenetic book once it got going, and I have speculations about a bunch of the people he met.
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Aster
5.0 out of 5 stars Great next installment
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019
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Sometimes by the fourth book in a series I start to feel a sense of fatigue, as if the author has used up all the ideas for a character and setting. Not so with this series--each new book deepens the plot and the characters, with details from the previous books unfurling to reveal a deeper truth beneath. And it's all done with a wry sense of humor and characters who never take themselves too seriously.
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Queen Talk Talk
5.0 out of 5 stars So many feels!!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020
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"If you will not die; then grow." These characters are so engaging I want more books! New characters are introduced with wonderful stories to tell. The writing style is like honey. A lingering sweetness that you crave when comfort is needed.
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P A DEWS THOMSON
4.0 out of 5 stars Takes the Series in a New Direction
Reviewed in Australia on February 29, 2020
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I really like the series. This latest takes the story in a new direction, while still maintaining the engaging characterisation and interesting world-building. It also keeps up that odd blend of formal manners, intricate inner life and hinted lines of development that made the first so captivating.
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april
3.0 out of 5 stars Sweet...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2020
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Continues the story, and ends predictably but nicely...the whole series is worth reading...it is a charming coming-of-age tale with good characters, delightful settings and a decent plot...lots of events and adventures, bits of magic and folklore, a few religions and rites, and stirring upheavals...there is a charming layer of scholarship as well, with poetry and interpretations of secret messages...maybe it ends too abruptly, too conveniently? the "dea ex machina" solution is a bit simple, n'est pas? Could have been developed a bit more? ....but entertaining, cute, charming...recommended...
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Mrs H.
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting followup, darker than the other books.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2021
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Always good plotting by the author, although I found there was rather too much architectural poetry.
Worried by the quasi religious ending, Maybe putting the hero in a coma might have been enough.
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