- Hardcover: 656 pages
- Publisher: Baen Books (6 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1416555765
- ISBN-13: 978-1416555766
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 721,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jame is a Kencyrath, the chosen people of the Three-Faced God, who fight the demonic being called Perimal Darkling. At the same time, she fights an internal battle for their honor because 3,000 years ago the leader of the Kencyrath betrayed his people to the Darkness for his own immortality.
She also must find her ten-year older brother Tori and return to him the sword and ring of their father. If that is not enough she has to stand before the rathorns, wear the cloak of living snakes, kill one god, and resurrect another. All in a day's work for Jame.
"P.C. Hodgell writes the most strikingly weird and wonderful stories in epic fantasy today."--Charles Stross
"Hodgell has crafted an excellent and intricate fantasy with humor and tragedy, and a capable and charming female hero. Highly recommended." --"Library Journal"
"Publisher's Note: ""The God Stalker Chronicles" has been previously published as two separate novels, "God Stalk" and its sequel "Dark of the Moon."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The two books God Stalk and Dark of the Moon (which make up this volume) seem to have originally been published in the US in 1982 and 1985 respectively. They were later published in the UK as a single volume as Chronicles of the Kencyrath in 1987.
It was in that form that I found it a few years back purely by chance in a second hand bookshop, the book was by a writer I had never heard of, I bought it because it was cheap and it looked vaguely interesting. It turned out to be one of the best fantasy books I have ever read - richly imaginative and strange, as well as beautifully written and sometimes darkly comic. I cannot understand why this writer is not far better known and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Absolutely brilliant.
It was in that form that I found it a few years back purely by chance in a second hand bookshop, the book was by a writer I had never heard of, I bought it because it was cheap and it looked vaguely interesting. It turned out to be one of the best fantasy books I have ever read - richly imaginative and strange, as well as beautifully written and sometimes darkly comic. I cannot understand why this writer is not far better known and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Absolutely brilliant.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Hodgell's God Stalk and Dark of the Moon (the two books in the God Stalker Chronicles) are a journey to a world filled with carnivorous butterflies and unicorns slowly being suffocated by their own ivory armor. There, on Rathellien at the edge of Perimal Darkling, nothing is fixed or as it seems. The stories begin with Jame, stumbling out of the borderlands to the great city of Tai-Tastigon. The year she spends there as a thief, possible saviour of her people, and generally confused heroine mark her for the search that will follow--for her twin brother Tori and the rest of her people.
Dark of the Moon follows Jame as she searches for a way to her brother. On her journey she destroys and discoveries cities, starts what could be a blood-feud with a rathorn colt, and struggles to find her place in a world crumbling at the edges.
These books have a unique, funny, and fascinating set of characters--read them for the depth of the world that Hodgell has created, go back to them because you enjoy them so much, and buy the next ones because you cannot resist.
Dark of the Moon follows Jame as she searches for a way to her brother. On her journey she destroys and discoveries cities, starts what could be a blood-feud with a rathorn colt, and struggles to find her place in a world crumbling at the edges.
These books have a unique, funny, and fascinating set of characters--read them for the depth of the world that Hodgell has created, go back to them because you enjoy them so much, and buy the next ones because you cannot resist.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Judging by the synopsis and other review, this book was also published as 'The Chronicles of the Kencyr', a book both I and my sister own and love.
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