Sixteen years have passed since the evil deity, the Lord of Twilight, was shattered into five hosts, souls destined to become the Shadowkings. Now the Shadowkings are compelled to return the Lord of Twilight to his fleshly being. Many lives will be changed forever as battle commences yet again.
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Shadowkings, Michael Cobley's impressively unpleasant first fantasy novel, takes place after the worst has happened; the invading forces of the evil Lord of Twilight have burned the tree which gave the wizards of the Khatrimantine Empire access to the roots of magic, and shattered civilisation into anarchic fragments. Things are about to get worse--the five warrior-wizards who between them carry the parts of the Lord of Twilight have rediscovered who they are and are coordinating the mopping up of the last bits of opposition. Of course, things are never that simple: demonic generals with a nasty taste in mayhem cannot be relied upon to accept personal dissolution, for one thing, and fur-clad barbarian hordes tend to want to get something out of evil in the way of land and loot rather doing evil for its own sake. And new imperial heirs with magic powers will keep turning up...
If it were not for its unrelenting bleakness, Shadowkings would be a fairly standard story of apocalyptic evil and heroic good--Cobley has a sense, however, of how bad a battlefield or a ruined town smells, and his dark magic is appropriately sinister. --Roz Kaveney
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Michael Cobley has had short stories published in magazines and anthologies for a number of years. He attended Strathclyde University and lives in Glasgow. Following Shadowkings, Shadowgod is the second book in the 'Shadowkings' trilogy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By C. James
Format:Paperback
This was an especially good fantasy saga. The text and the attention to detail were very impressive and I found it a very easy read. Both dark and fascinating, this was a hard book to put down. Has definitely inspired me to check out his other works.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fantasy trilogies have a nasty habit of ballooning to occupy the space available and so can be overblown and rambling. But Cobley adopts the more-is-less approach by making best use of his carefully thought out language and precisely drawn imagery. The casual skim reader will miss the best of this book. The devil (or, in this case, the Shadowking) is in the detail. The story is fairly standard fantasy stuff but the author handles his major themes of possession and lost glories with a zeal verging on the evangelical. I enjoyed this read immensely. If you wanted to paint your bedroom black when you were fourteen or if you live for the night then this book is for you. No pastel shades here. Just black fire and red boiling blood smouldering in twilight shadows. That sort of thing.....
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Mr Cobley's narrative style and attention to detail is superb; the writing fairly sparkles from the love and attention which was obviously spent on it - indeed, it's not often these days that the genre acquires a fine, new craftsman. Cobley writes with the same passion and lack of self-consciousness of early exponents of the genre such as Robert E Howard. The situations faced by his characters seem very real and very harsh indeed. The use of magic in the story is adequately restrained to make it frightening and almost believable.
A few people have commented on the unremitting darkness of this book but I would argue that, in the context of more-to-follow there must be this grim dark before the dawn! War is hell after all... I especially liked the fact that the mortals who contain the shattered soul of the Shadowking of the title, all have their own agendas and are not exactly willing sacrifices to one great plan...
Looking forward to book two...
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A struggle
Well bought this one on the back of all the 5 star reviews but I found it a bit hard going I am afraid.
There were some nice ideas. Read more
There were some nice ideas. Read more
Published on 22 April 2010 by Mr. A. I. Harrison
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good 1st book, but I feel we have far better to come.
Well what can I say regarding the previous reviews of this novel.... Yes Micheal has a very easy to read style, the pages seem to flow past quite nicely. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2002 by Mr. A. J. D. White
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dark and full of atmosphere
...First things first the book from EarthLight has an impressive cover which is much in style with the contents, it is dark, moody but remarkably stylish. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2001
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