- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz (24 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575065257
- ISBN-13: 978-0575065253
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.4 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,163,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Jacoby's fantasy sequence, the Books of Elita, has an attractive sense of the difficulties of reclaiming lost knowledge and of the sheer fag of getting around a medieval landscape on horseback and on foot. She neatly balances her hero's sense of honour--he has sworn not to oppose a foreign usurper--and his sense of duty to oppressed people; Robert has also to cope with the problems of massive sorcerous power and the temptations to use it. Meanwhile, the usurper Selah constantly pushes his luck and others' loyalty; the young witch Jenn explores her powers, and the hidden villain, Nash, the King's smiling confidant, who is older than he looks, pursues his own agendas and desires. Jacoby has a good eye for the physicalities of her set pieces--sieges, escapes, sorcerous duels--but is also sensitive to emotions, particularly those of an older generation who feel betrayed by children with radically different values and priorities. This is a world in which there are no good choices and in which the most overwhelming presence is that of regret; for reasons that the characters will never know, an earlier generation largely abandoned magic and the knowledge of magic in the false belief that this would solve the world's problems. --Roz Kaveney
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A glorious fantasy epic in the bestselling tradition of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Having read Exile's Return I was looking forward to this, the second book in the Elita series, and I wasn't disappointed. The writing is clear, the story well paced and the characters totally engaging. I read the entire book in one sitting and am eagerly awaiting the next in the series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book held my interest from first to last page. Intrigue, magic and emotion were cleverly woven into a strong and sometimes very humourous storyline. Elita is a world I almost feel I've visited, and the characters feel like friends or members of my own family. Once I'd reached halfway I just couldn't put it down. Voice of the Demon is well-written, well-developed and well worth reading.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Jacoby manages, through her sharp imagination and brilliant grasp of human nature, to bring together a wild story both original and real. This is one of those great books where you go into it quietly, don't realize you're getting sucked in until you simply can't put it down. The moment I finished it, I swore that I didn't have the next one to start on. And there's no way I guessed what would happen at the end.
I have to say that even though the story was tight and clever, I think my favourite part of both this book and all that Jacoby has written, is her great characters. They're all very real, and react in the ways we all do. The heroes aren't perfect, and the bad guys don't have soft vulnerable sides so you feel sorry for them. As in real life, so much of what happens is dictated by who these people are, and what they want from life.
I couldn't recommend this series more highly. A great read you won't want to put down.
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