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Cry of the Newborn

door James Barclay

Reeksen: Ascendants of Estorea (book 1)

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The Estorean Conquord has stood for 850 years. Its Advocate, Herine Del Aglios, knows that she presides over the greatest civilisation in history. But she wants more. And in Estorea's recently conquered territories dissent is brewing. Forced to fight old friends and neighbours in the cause of the ever-growing Conquord, they face brutal choices and savage demands for money and men to be fed into Estorea's wars - demands made by Paul Jhered, head of the Gatherers and the iron hand of the Advocate, With Jhered by her side, Herine believes that nothing can go wrong. Until a disastrous and bloody reversal in the war to overrun the Kingdom of Tsard puts Estorea's armies on the back foot and has Tsardon troops flooding into the Conquord. As the empire trembles, far from the war four unique children are discovering their powers. They are the first true Ascendants, in touch with the elements, able to shape the world. An empire descending into war is about to discover the wonder and terror of magic . . . James Barclay's new series is a triumph of epic plotting and heart-stopping action.… (meer)

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Not a bad read, but there are some very over-used tropes in this book, as well as one scene that felt a bit over done to prove the "bad guy" was "really bad." Honestly, it wasn't the main characters that I ended up loving, but the Exchequer. There were some moments where the plot really slogged, but that was peronsal preference. I'm not a fan of detailed, drawn out war scenes and tactics, more character driven. Over all, not a bad way to have spent two days, but not quite good enough for it to be on my re-read shelves. (

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HotPinkMess | Jul 31, 2022 |

This is a tale of a military that is struggling with the acceptance and use of new found powers, processed by children, which fly in the face of the people’s religious beliefs. This book starts off very slowly while it introduces the characters and the situation at hand. I had a really hard time getting into this one. In fact, I read two other books while reading this. Having said that though, once it gets going about half way through it makes amends, and sets the stage for a quick start to the next volume. Barclay has a skill for describing vast military campaigns. (

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CapusCorvax | Oct 19, 2010 |

Roman style battles interspersed with "magic". Some grammatical/typo errors throughout the book but it did not detract from the experience. Description of battles is very well done. You can almost get a sense of the scale of battle from words alone. A worthwhile read. (

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Tiberiusbox | Aug 5, 2010 |

It is a massive book - it took me weeks to read, I'd always read something else in between.
It certainly is a competent story, a competent and well crafted universe, lots of different characters, but I just found I didnt really get "into" it. In theory this is a kind of fantasy I should like, but I guess I have been tiring of massive books and series lately and this book arrived at just the wrong moment. I just would have enjoyed it more in a cut down version.

I felt the first 2 thirds of the book were about setting the scene - then in the last third things really pick up and get going and I read that quite a bit faster.
I found the military campaign story and the side characters of far more interest than in the main characters in the story, and I suspect that is why I really enjoyed the last third more - that's when I started caring.

One thing he does very well is make you care for people on all the different sides, which of course makes for a very complex and layered book.
A book for readers of massive fantasy series. (

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The Estorean Conquord has stood for 850 years. Its Advocate, Herine Del Aglios, knows that she presides over the greatest civilisation in history. But she wants more. And in Estorea's recently conquered territories dissent is brewing. Forced to fight old friends and neighbours in the cause of the ever-growing Conquord, they face brutal choices and savage demands for money and men to be fed into Estorea's wars - demands made by Paul Jhered, head of the Gatherers and the iron hand of the Advocate, With Jhered by her side, Herine believes that nothing can go wrong. Until a disastrous and bloody reversal in the war to overrun the Kingdom of Tsard puts Estorea's armies on the back foot and has Tsardon troops flooding into the Conquord. As the empire trembles, far from the war four unique children are discovering their powers. They are the first true Ascendants, in touch with the elements, able to shape the world. An empire descending into war is about to discover the wonder and terror of magic . . . James Barclay's new series is a triumph of epic plotting and heart-stopping action.

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