- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (20 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575078006
- ISBN-13: 978-0575078000
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 335,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Chadbourn has achieved significant depth and emotional engagement and that can't be a bad thing. Mark Chadbourn always plays for high stakes in his novels and this latest offering is no different." (Sandy Auden SFX )
"The first book in the remix of Mark Chadbourn's work offers a more gritty take on a war between good, evil and indifference. Think the spirit of V for Vendetta mixed with Neal Stephenson's historicism and infused by the spirit of Shakespeare's Puck: a featured character certain to invigorate future books." (EDGE )
"The first book in the remix of Mark Chadbourn's work offers a more gritty take on a war between good, evil and indifference. Think the spirit of V for Vendetta mixed with Neal Stephenson's historicism and infused by the spirit of Shakespeare's Puck: a featured character certain to invigorate future books." (EDGE )
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"The first book in the remix of Mark Chadbourn's work offers a more gritty take on a war between good, evil and indifference. Think the spirit of V for Vendetta mixed with Neal Stephenson's historicism and infused by the spirit of Shakespeare's Puck: a featured character certain to invigorate future books."
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Fantasy,
By disrep (Somerset) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jack Of Ravens: Kingdom of the Serpent: Book 1 (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
Jack of Ravens is a great read and a massive scamper through history from Celtic times, Romans, Elizabethan, the Blitz through to the 60's and America. If you haven't read the previous books it doesn't matter, you will just get a slightly different perspective on it.
If you have read them then you will be pleased to be reunited with the original Brothers and Sisters of Dragons. There is some good dry humour in amongst the action and tension. The characters have plenty of flaws and a sense of evil truely comes out from the villains. I couldn't put it down either and as usual I was left with plenty to think about. :)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tightening threads on the web of existence,
By Breakfast (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jack Of Ravens: Kingdom of the Serpent: Book 1 (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
This book, begins a third sequence in the "modern-world collapsing as technology fails and magic returns" setting that marked out the Age Of Misrule and Dark Age sequences as two of the most interesting fantasy trilogies of recent years.
All of the Chadbourn features are here- credibly flawed characters, taut writing, deep research and a plot that absolutely tears along, but this book has an engaging warmth to it that draws the reader in more than it's predecessors. Perhaps it's the return to familiar characters ( you should certainly read the Age Of Misrule books before starting this one- in fact, you should read them anyway as they're great ) or something about the way they grow through a story which revolves around the importance of hope and humanity but I felt more emotionally engaged by this than any of it's predecessors. Running behind the scenes of reality, on a whistlestop tour of some of history's more mysterious corners, this is a very promising start to the new trilogy.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Jack's Back!,
By Jayne (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jack Of Ravens: Kingdom of the Serpent: Book 1 (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
Mark Chadbourn has once again surpassed himself with this brilliant novel. It has everything. A fast pace and plenty of action through history for the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons to hopefully save existence and to top it all, we have Church at the helm again.
Fans of all the original characters (Church, Ruth, Veitch & co)are in for a real treat. We meet them all again, along with some new friends, and some new villains! I couldn't put the book down, but then, I never can when Chadbourn's the author.
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