Book Review: Keir, by Pippa Jay  Keir, by Pippa Jay Lyrical
Press, May 2012  Outcast. Cursed. Dying. Is Keir beyond
redemption?  For Keirlan de Corizi—the legendary ‘Blue Demon’ of
Adalucien—death seems the only escape from a world where his
discolored skin marks him as an oddity and condemns him to life
as a pariah. But salvation comes in an unexpected guise: Tarquin
Secker, a young woman who can travel the stars with a wave of
her hand.    A broken, emaciated man lies in the shadows of a
sewer, trapped behind iron gates. Persecuted every day of his
life for the color of his skin, Keirlan de Corizi is taunted
even in his last, lonely hours. He wishes for death to claim
him. Death denied him. When an odd young woman named Quin is
tossed into his cell, he is confounded by her light regard for
her situation. She claims she can get out of anywhere and
promises to take him with her. At the moment, he doesn’t have
enough energy left in his body to hope that she can. There’s
much he doesn’t understand in their firs