The Ill-Made Mute is the first in The Bitterbynde trilogy, and an excellent fantasy based in another world, Eirth, mostly in Isse Tower, a tall castle-like structure housing many people A mute, scarred and despised creature, with no memory, is found, and he is forced to work as a servant in the tower.
Eventually he sneaks aboard a windship to escape the cruelty of Isse Tower, when the windship is attacked by pirates, who kill or capture everyone on board. The creature, later, standing on the edge of the pirate ship and is pushed off, and a pirate, Sianadh, jumps off after him, with a parachute. They land in the forest, where few men dare to go and even fewer survive the unseelie wights, little food and cold nights.
Finding out later that he is really a she, Irmhein and Sianadh travel to find a place on a map long ago given to Sianah, to find a place in the mountains, the Waterstair, where a rich sildron mine is, and many other treasures worth a thousand fortunes lie.
Irmhein now must survive the perilious journey through forests and hordes of unseelie wights, theives, hunger and cold to find her fortune, and to hopefully find something out about her past, who she is and what happened to her...
Fans of fantasy novels will find this an excellent read, and a great introduction for those who don't read fantasy, and is refreshingly different from the usual dwarf, elf, troll mix of good vs evil.
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