- Mass Market Paperback: 215 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books; Reissue edition (Sep 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0380896362
- ISBN-13: 978-0380896363
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 956,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Pursued by a fiendish enemy, Merle must battle through an intricate web of vengeance and murder that threatens more than the San Francisco Bay area. For Merle Corey of California is also Merlin, son of Corwin, vanished Prince of Amber; and the forces, seeking to destroy the royal house, have unleashed sorceries that can strike anywhere, especially at the very heart of Amber.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Bought it to fill in a gap of my other Chronicles books, as somehow I ended up with 2x Trumps of Doom... I'd read it before so that's why I wanted to complete my set.
Probably not quite as good as the first set of 5, as Merlin comes across as less of a sardonic but unreliable narrator...
Probably not quite as good as the first set of 5, as Merlin comes across as less of a sardonic but unreliable narrator...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic
21 May 1999
Format:Hardcover
You asked for a great book and you got it! It's this one. (And the whole 10 books of the series). This book features Merlin, Lord of Chaos, and magician, who also happens to have a computer science degree from Berkeley. In this book, Merle is in the woods sleeping when he hears a threatening voice of an otherworldly creature that has appeared in the darkness that says "I am the enemy - the one you thought you would never come". Then there is a flashback while Merle remembers and philosophizes about several events in his life revolving around power. He then answers the voice in the woods, saying "It's about time". This is very Zelaznian humor which is one of the great features of these books. In addition, there is lots of great adventure. Zelazny really can write. His is an evolved writing form, far beyond his contemporaries.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Blood of Amber is one of my favourite Amber books!
9 April 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Not much body to this review, but I just thought I'd say that the Amber series is one of my favourites, and I really like this book in particular. Scrof, the Dweller on the Threshold, is hilarious!
Merlin dodges death ... again
4 April 2012
Format:Paperback
This is the continuation of Merlin's story in the Amber saga ... book two of the five you will read to finish the tale of his adventures.
In the first book, Merlin survived multiple attempts on his life, and book two is no different. However, by this time Merlin is starting to get a handle on who some of the parties behind those attempts may be, and at least one of them is quite a surprise.
In this book, as in many, Zelazny shows a genius for making the mundane sound interesting. If he wants to give you the feel of a long and thought filled journey, he GIVES you a lengthy description of the long and though filled journey. The journey takes time for you as well as Merlin. Zelazny fills the description with tidbits of what fills Merlin's senses. He describes details both mundane and extraordinary and makes it all interesting to the reader. That's no easy task for a writer to accomplish, but it seems effortless for Zelazny.
The details of where this part of Merlin's story begins and ends is absolutely irrelevant, because you aren't going to be picking out this book apart from the rest of the series to read by itself. You MUST read all five books to get the complete story. None of the five stands on its own, and the first four generally end either on a cliffhanger or a startling revelation. So I'm not going to provide any more detail of the storyline than I've already hinted at.
After you read "The Trumps of Doom", just continue right along with this one and enjoy. Make sure you have all five books in the series at hand, because you won't want to wait even a minute from the end of one to the first chapter of the next. I feel for the people who had to wait two years to continue their read as these books were published. Actually, that group includes me for the five books of Merlin's story. I read the first five books encompassing Corwin's tale all at once, but finished them just about the time "The Trumps of Doom" was published. Luckily I read these books so long ago that I only remember the details of the plot as I read and am reminded, so it's pretty close to a new read for me. I'm lucky that my memory was not sufficient to recall any more than it did of these books! LOL
In the first book, Merlin survived multiple attempts on his life, and book two is no different. However, by this time Merlin is starting to get a handle on who some of the parties behind those attempts may be, and at least one of them is quite a surprise.
In this book, as in many, Zelazny shows a genius for making the mundane sound interesting. If he wants to give you the feel of a long and thought filled journey, he GIVES you a lengthy description of the long and though filled journey. The journey takes time for you as well as Merlin. Zelazny fills the description with tidbits of what fills Merlin's senses. He describes details both mundane and extraordinary and makes it all interesting to the reader. That's no easy task for a writer to accomplish, but it seems effortless for Zelazny.
The details of where this part of Merlin's story begins and ends is absolutely irrelevant, because you aren't going to be picking out this book apart from the rest of the series to read by itself. You MUST read all five books to get the complete story. None of the five stands on its own, and the first four generally end either on a cliffhanger or a startling revelation. So I'm not going to provide any more detail of the storyline than I've already hinted at.
After you read "The Trumps of Doom", just continue right along with this one and enjoy. Make sure you have all five books in the series at hand, because you won't want to wait even a minute from the end of one to the first chapter of the next. I feel for the people who had to wait two years to continue their read as these books were published. Actually, that group includes me for the five books of Merlin's story. I read the first five books encompassing Corwin's tale all at once, but finished them just about the time "The Trumps of Doom" was published. Luckily I read these books so long ago that I only remember the details of the plot as I read and am reminded, so it's pretty close to a new read for me. I'm lucky that my memory was not sufficient to recall any more than it did of these books! LOL
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