The Bewitchments of Love & Hate by Storm Constantine
Paperback
Published by Orbit
Orbit printing dated 1988
CONDITION - VFN
GRADING NOTES - Light wear to all leading edges of book. Slight discolouration/fading to spine
ISSUE NOTES - Second book of Wraeththu
Swift is Wraeththu. He lives in Forever, a rambling mansion which guards his youth and adolescence from most of the turbulence that attends the first years of Wraeththu pre-eminence. His family is a paradigm of the struggles within the nascent culture: Terzian, his father, and leader of the Varrs, has begun to slaughter all non-Varrs barbarically. Cobweb, his 'mother' has retreated into mysticism and mind-power in horrified reaction to his consort's brutality.
And then Cal returns to stir up the long-buried past. Swift is confronted with responsibilities he is unused to as his is caught up first in a bitter family struggle, and later in a journey that will end by changing the Wraeththu dominions irrevocably.