- Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Tor; Reprint edition (1 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765346338
- ISBN-13: 978-0765346339
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,159,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Reading any novel in the [Recluce] series invites the reader to fill in the picture of a tangible setting some critics have compared to Tolkien's Middle-Earth."
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The second volume of The Corean Chronicles, a major new series by a proven master of epic fantasy.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Alucius, once a prisoner of the Matrites, is now back among friends--but some of his "friends" seem worse than the enemy! When it is time to return to his men after a month long furlough with his family, Alucius is attacked by assassins. He survives, but this is just the first of many situations where he is put in harm's way. He becomes convinced that he has a powerful enemy among the Iron Valley Council, but he doesn't know who it is or why he is hated.
When the Iron Valley is taken over by the Lonachronans, Captain Alucius is assigned an impossible seeming mission far from Iron Valleys and his family. There he is betrayed when his "allies" flee leaving him to hold against overwhelming numbers of nomads.
This book is well worth your time. An excellent sequel to Legacies.
Mark E. Cooper
Author of The Warrior Within (ISBN:0954512200)
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
L. E. Modesitt has with this book given yet more proof (if any were needed) that he is one of the most entertaining fantasy writers around. Corean Chronicles is a worthy successor to The Saga of Recluce, The Spellsong Cycle and so on.
In Alucius we have a hero who is slowly coming into his powers and realising that his life is going to be vastly different from the one he envisioned as a child. His world is one where technology, the supernatural and magic are so intertwined that it is not possible to say where one stops and the other(s) start.
His wife Wendra is also starting to learn that she also has Talent and is learning how to use it, there is a steadily strengthening physic bond between them that adds to the depth of their personal story. Alucius and Wendra have (hopefully) a long journey in front of them as they both continue not only to learn about their separate powers and how to use them, but also what fate destiny holds for them.
The signs are that Alucius will not end his days as a humble herder of nightsheep but that tale remains to be told. I for one look forward to reading the next instalment of this entertaining fantasy.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The first volume of this series introduced us to the main characters (including Modessit's typical heroic figure), the main concepts and the world that the adventures would be set in - I quite enjoyed the first book. In this second volume we learn more about the world and gradually about the underlying 'problem' that is generating the adventures that the hero finds himself in.
Like the first novel, there is a military aspect to it - with battles (and magic) but this time more definite 'baddies' to match against our heroic 'goody' (sorry about the kiddie language, I am spending 'too' much time with my children!).
For all that though - I get the feeling that this book is largely a 'space filler'; clearly we are going to have (at least) volume 3 and reading this book may well be the 'price' we have to pay to understand it.
It wasn't a bad book - just not a particularly good one. I felt that Modessit made a much better job of the soldier/mage hero in the Magi of Cyador/Scian of Cyador books.
I'll look forward to volume 3 of this series - but not with the same anticipation that I waited for this one.
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Darknesses
I liked this book it's both imaginative and exciting with lots of action thrown in throughout. Nice and long. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2009 by Manic Mike
A pretty good second installment for the Corean Chronicles
Unlike the first book this book doesn't hang around getting to known the world or the charaters. Instead you get dropped right into the story with an attempt on Alucius life. Read more
Published on 16 May 2004
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