Strong story, good characters and a lengthy listen. The book is well written, as can be expected of any Morgan book, and his character inter-play has lost none of its wit. This is a book of swords, horses and wagons, and not in a War Hammer 40,000 version either. This is not Cyber Punk, or anything remotely close to the corporate mechanisms of 'Market Forces' of the past. Now that everyone with a pre-disposed dislike for a majority of the books interpersonal views has left, Mr. Morgan's books have had extreme feminist leanings and his comics where a feminist steroid of the next generation! This book does not disappoint on those fronts, but if you have issues with Male on Male homosexuality or any homosexuality for that matter than stop now. Morgan (The new 'god' of Cyber Punk) jumps the genre to keep himself free from pigeonholes. But with heroes like these, the cure is likely to be worse than the disease. Now Gil and two old comrades are all that stand in the way of a prophecy whose fulfillment will drown an entire world in blood. Some speak in whispers of the return of an all-but-legendary race known as the Aldrain, cruel yet beautiful demons feared even by the Kiriath. Grim sorceries that have not been seen for centuries are awakening in the land. But it soon becomes apparent that more is at stake than the fate of one luckless young woman. Grumbling all the way, Gil sets out to track her down.
Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but that doesn't stop his mother from enlisting his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery.
That sword, forged by a vanished eldritch race known as the Kiriath, has brought him unlooked-for notoriety, as has his habit of poking his nose where it doesn't belong.
Such is the prophecy that dogs the footsteps of Ringil Eskiath - Gil, for short - a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose world-weary cynicism is surpassed only by the quickness of his temper and the speed of his sword. Now he turns his iconoclastic talents to epic fantasy, crafting a darkly violent, tautly plotted adventure sure to thrill old fans and captivate new readers.Ī dark lord will rise. Morgan has vaulted to the pinnacle of the science fiction world.
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