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Bezig met laden... The Fell Sword (editie 2014)door Miles Cameron
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I really loved this - the mix of historical accuracy (the author is a keen medieval re-enactor), gritty military action scenes, the ruthless power politics, the academic and practically-applied sorcery, the contrast between the human kingdoms and the Wild (red in tooth and claw). A fantastic read, and I can't wait for the next in the series. ( ) Things I liked I liked the queens story, it had a good sense of menace and generally felt more under threat. I liked the use of the dance at the end as a mechanism of bringing many of the characters together. Things I didn't like I thought gods and general theme of magic got a bit out of control. It was like you couldn't have a battle or really have any chance of winning without a bunch of wizards all of a sudden. I think this took away a lot of the fun of the band of mercenaries and made it much more about the captain all of a sudden. Highlight: The dance at the end with all the characters fading in out of their shared reality. Very nice. Scary and sweet at the same time. The Fell Sword is the second book in Miles Cameron’s Traitor Son series. Just like in the Red Knight, the first volume in this series, reading this one gives the impression that the author essentially has fun writing a piece that takes place in a fantasy world that borrows from European 14th century. The Fell Sword opens with the Red Knight’s mercenary company, fresh off its costly victory in the first book, traveling to “the Empire” for a contract for the Emperor. Things go sideways before they start, however, when the Emperor is kidnapped shortly before the company arrives. Meanwhile Thorn weaves new plots, the Wild roils, the Galles scheme, and the north of Albin recovers. Cameron’s descriptive powers come to the fore and he creates some action-packed vignettes. The spectacle of many knights mustering on a battlefield is pretty awe-inspiring. You get that huge sense of scope here. Chaos doesn’t seem an appropriate enough word to do these moments justice. The fantastical elements in the novel are sometimes quite subtle; but in other cases wildly overt. The mythical beings that inhabit the Wild are starting to play a larger role in the plot, and more and more are being introduced. I’m very much looking forward to volume 3 – hope the wait is not too long. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Loyalty costs money. Betrayal, on the other hand, is free. When the Emperor is taken hostage, the Red Knight and his men find their services in high demand--and themselves surrounded by enemies. The country is in revolt, the capital city is besieged and any victory will be hard won. But the Red Knight has a plan. The question is, can he negotiate the political, magical, real and romantic battlefields at the same time--especially when he intends to be victorious on them all? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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