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Bezig met laden... Doomstalkerdoor Glen Cook
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Darkwar Trilogy (1)
The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill with their minds alone, and of the Grauken, that desperate time when intellect gives way to buried cannibalistic instinct, when meth feeds upon meth. For Marika, a young pup of the Packstead, loyal to pack and family, times are dark indeed, for against these foes, the Packstead cannot prevail. But awakening within Marika is a power unmatched in all the world, a legendary power that may not just save her world, but allow her to grasp the stars themselves. From Glen Cook, author of the Black Company and Dread Empire novels. The first audiobook in the Darkwar series. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.43)
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I have to start with a complaint, though. Not only is the cover art on this book just terrible, from an artistic/aesthetic standpoint, but it's pretty obvious that the book didn't get read by the artist, and there was a severe lack of communication going on. ALL of the characters in this book are wolflike aliens – they live in a matriarchal pack structure, are described as having long muzzles, paws, and fur. They whine, howl, and twitch their ears. So why are all of the characters in the cover art distinctly human? (Well, I guess they have kinda funny-looking eyes and big ears. But still.) Argh. Anyway.
Marika is an adolescent living in a remote packstead. From youth, she's had unusual mental powers, which cause some of the elders to be hostile toward her. But in one dire winter, her home is invaded and destroyed. Her only path may be to join the silth – feared and respected sorceresses who are supposed to protect the people – but who, obviously, have been failing, and have generated resentment. Marika discovers there may be a lot more to her world than her rural upbringing allowed her to know... but even among the silth, there are those with an inexplicable hostility toward her... myths and legends of the Doomstalker may be to blame.
Although the story has many original and unique details, this is still well-trodden ground, as far as the plot goes. It's also one of those stories where the trilogy is really all one book – randomly divided into three parts for marketing. Entertaining, so far, but not exceptional. (