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Five years after defeating the Dark Ones, the embattled inhabitants of the once-great Keep of Dare face a yet more deadly foe. An icy-cold force was spreading across the northlands, spawning strange creatures that killed everything in their grisly path . . . Archmage Ingold Inglorion believed the source of this monstrous evil lay in the decadent lands to the south. With him traveled Gil Patterson, the scholar-warrior from Earth who had forsaken her own universe for love of the mage. Determined to aid him in his quest, she was cursed to become the instrument of his death. Ingold's apprentice Rudy Solis was left behind, the sole wizard standing between the Keep of Dare and the nightmare creatures besieging it. Rudy struggled tirelessly with wavering magic to ward off the virulent attacks of the ice mage's minions. But when someone attacked the widowed queen--the woman he loved--Rudy was forced to plumb the ultimate secret locked in the black crystal heart of the Keep of Dare . . . and so decide the fate of the world.… (mais)
Set 5 years after the events of the original series, more disasters happen to the survivors of the Rising of the Dark. It looks like some ancient mages are bringing about 'snowball' Earth to raise the Mother of Winter, a being from the dawn of time, predating the Dark. Gil and and the mage Inglorion travel south to Alketch to try and prevent this, leaving Rudy holding the fort back at the Keep.
I can't help thinking that there is a plothole wide enough to take a 12-carriage train sideways in this series - if Inglorion is able to create portals and cross the Void to other worlds, why on earth doesn't he do that with the survivors? It's got to be better than grubbing around in an incipient Ice Age...
Either way, a well written installment. Recommended.
Substance: Reasonably interesting, didn't depend too much on having read the preceding books. Pretty standard mage-world and characters, although having two "transplants" from California is a change. Style: Straight narrative. The American characters allow the author to run some "inside" jokes, and protect against the crime of inappropriate references which often occurs in sf and fantasy (not really anachronisms, since they are "universal" in nature). ( )
Hambly returns to the world of Darwath, and the unfinished series that originally ended with The Armies of Daylight. In that book, while the original premise was resolved, there was clearly more involved. Hambly now explains the reasons for what was going on in the previous series, and it is up to Rudy, Gil and Ingold to once again resolve this latest puzzle. Another excellent novel, Hambly does a very good job with characters that are strong but not overly powerful, in serious situations that aren't always cliff-hangers. Good classic style fantasy. This is dangerous and somewhat Lovecraftian, but not 'dark' by today's standards. Its all the better for it. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In the moonstone dawn, the lone rider dismounted at the top of the steps, passed through the black square open eye where the doors would one day be, and halted on the edge of shadowed abyss. (prologue)
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
...to where Yoshabel the mule waited in the courtyard, wreathed in spells of "there-isn't-a-mule-here" and "this-creature-is-both-dangerous-and-inedible." The second spell wasn't far wrong, in Gil's opinion. -- chapter 1, p.18
Tir remembered being king. Over, and over, and over. -- chapter 2, p.23
"Why is it," Minalde asked with a sigh, later, as she and Rudy walked down the muddy path toward the Keep farms, "that one always hears of spells that will turn people into trees and frogs and mongrel dogs, but never one that will turn a...a lout like that into a good man?"
Rudy shrugged. "Maybe because if I said, 'Abracadabra, turn that jerk into a good man,' there'd be no change."
Rudy observed that even while working, the Icefalcon's right hand never got beyond grabbing range of his sword. All the Guards were like that to a degree, of course, but according to Gil there were bets among them as to whether the Icefalcon closed his eyes when he slept.
There was a literary tradition in the world where Gil had been brought up -- and in fact in the less respectable fiction of the Wathe, to which Minalde was addicted, as well -- that any heroine worthy of her corsetry, upon finding herself in a situation of peril, should promptly run away seeking her hero, endangering both herself and everyone else in the process. -- Chapter 16, p.218
He was aware that he was looking at the end of the world, the beginning of Fimbul Winter indeed -- the Ultimate Notification from the Great Darwinian Bureau in the Sky that said, "We regret to inform you that you have been selected against." -- Chapter 6, p.88
"But you know ... we change. I've never wanted to find myself in bonds that I couldn't lay aside, no; in a situation I couldn't just walk away from. I never wanted to be trapped the way I was trapped by what my family expected of me, the way I was trapped whenever I argued with my father or when my mother started quoting how much things would cost. ... But what we want changes, too. That's something I never understood before: the kind of love that can come to you when you stick around through really thick and really thin; the kind of love when you put yourself on the line, when you give it time and stay long enough to learn to care. When you make someone -- ... when you care enough about people to make them a permanent part of your life."
-- chapter 24, pp. 318-319
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Five years after defeating the Dark Ones, the embattled inhabitants of the once-great Keep of Dare face a yet more deadly foe. An icy-cold force was spreading across the northlands, spawning strange creatures that killed everything in their grisly path . . . Archmage Ingold Inglorion believed the source of this monstrous evil lay in the decadent lands to the south. With him traveled Gil Patterson, the scholar-warrior from Earth who had forsaken her own universe for love of the mage. Determined to aid him in his quest, she was cursed to become the instrument of his death. Ingold's apprentice Rudy Solis was left behind, the sole wizard standing between the Keep of Dare and the nightmare creatures besieging it. Rudy struggled tirelessly with wavering magic to ward off the virulent attacks of the ice mage's minions. But when someone attacked the widowed queen--the woman he loved--Rudy was forced to plumb the ultimate secret locked in the black crystal heart of the Keep of Dare . . . and so decide the fate of the world.
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I can't help thinking that there is a plothole wide enough to take a 12-carriage train sideways in this series - if Inglorion is able to create portals and cross the Void to other worlds, why on earth doesn't he do that with the survivors? It's got to be better than grubbing around in an incipient Ice Age...
Either way, a well written installment. Recommended.