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Shout For The Dead: The Ascendants of Estorea Book 2 (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)

by James Barclay (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (4 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575076216
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575076211
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.6 x 5.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 592,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In THE CRY OF THE NEWBORN we were introduced to four teenagers, each of whom had nature at their command. They became the pawns in the struggle of the Estorean empire to survive. Through them their world discovered magic and we were drawn into a superb new epic fantasy that, for the first time, told the story of what happens when magic arrives in a previously non-magical world. Now ten years have passed and Estorea is consumed by war and the four ascendents have chosen different sides in the conflict. As the armies muster and the final conflict draws close the ascendents are only now coming to their full power and soon summoned armies of the dead will march against the living. This is epic fantasy full of fallible characters, political machinations, betrayal and bloody battles. It combines vivid storytelling with an original theme in a popular sub-genre and shows Barclay to be a writer who is getting better with every book and who is truly comfortable with epic scale.


About the Author

James Barclay is in his thirties and lives in Staines with his wife. Having worked in the city he now writes full time.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 18 Feb 2008
By A. Whitehead "Werthead" (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shout For The Dead: The Ascendants of Estorea Book 2 (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
Ten years have passed since the events of the first book. The Estorean Conquord is riven with discontent as the Advocate sponsors the development of the Ascendents, whilst the Order is implacably opposed to them. With religious strife threatening the Conquord with dissolution, the Tsardons launch a renewed invasion, this time with the 'fallen' Ascendant Gorian providing them with vast armies of undead warriors. The Conquord is forced into a military confrontation it cannot win whilst the only people who can stop Gorian are also the most feared and reviled people in the empire...

I was disappointed by Shout for the Dead. Cry of the Newborn set up an interesting premise with impressive, exciting battle sequences and fast-paced storytelling (despite its mammoth size) which more than made up for its lack of in-depth characterisation and its sometimes workmanlike prose. That book was basically an action blockbuster with some interesting ideas on the introduction of magic into a nonmagical world and on that level it worked well.

Shout for the Dead feels somewhat laboured. I get the impression from comments in interviews and on his website that Barclay struggled with the book, and that comes through here. Characters vanish with no explanation (whatever happened to the King of Atreska and Megan, the politician who replaced him?) and Barclay fails to make the battles as compelling as in the first book, perhaps because they almost entirely consist of vast hordes of zombies marching over the opposition. The only bits where the book explodes into life are when the Ocetanas turn up and start kicking some serious ass. The scene where Iliev takes on a bunch of undead single-handed is superb ("Gentleman, I'll be needing my papers,"). The naivete and stupidity of certain characters is also incredibly annoying, and the ending is rather unsatisfying.

Shout for the Dead (**) is a disappointing and lacklustre conclusion to what promised to be an entertaining action series. However, there was plenty of promise in the book, and I really enjoyed the adventures of the Ocetanas. Hopefully they will be front and centre if Barclay ever chooses to return to this world.
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3.0 out of 5 stars solid but slightly lacking characterisation, 17 May 2007
By N. Brett (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shout For The Dead: The Ascendants of Estorea Book 2 (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
The second and final book in his Ascendants series. I enjoyed the first once I got into it and this one was okay, but for some reason it did not engage me as much as the first. Very dark at times and the author is prepared to kill off any character if it helps the story or provides shocks at the right moments.

Following on from the previous book (which you do need to read first) the Ascendants have grown up but the outcast Gorian has a plan to raise the dead to fight for him and set himself up as God and ruler of a dead world. While the good guys deal with panic, insurrection and religious fanaticism, an army of the dead is approaching, and of course anyone killed joins their mass.

This is gory and dark, but I felt the fighting scenes took something away from the characters and I did not engage with them as much as I would have expected. Having said that, although this is not for the faint hearted, this is solid stuff from a very good author who now has a significant presence in British fantasy.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sequel, 9 Jan 2007
By disrep (Somerset) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shout For The Dead: The Ascendants of Estorea Book 2 (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
James Barclay's Shout for the Dead. This is the second part of his Ascendants duology. You need to read the first part really to understand this book fully. Set in the romanesque world of the Conquord with a strong religious base. The Ascendants, who have the ability to manipulate the elements and were born into the world in the first book, are still not fully accepted. One has gone rogue and is mustering an army of the Dead.

It is different from his Raven series, much less light hearted.
However it still has his hallmarks of good camaraderie between characters, a beautifully described magic system and a detailed world and systems of beliefs, law and structure. It has excellent legion battle scenes and characters to love and hate in equal quantities. He doesn't pull any punches when it comes to killing people off either. War is war and he takes casualties.

I loved it, it is as it says on the back, truly excellent heroic fa
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4.0 out of 5 stars gripping
After a fairly sedate start to this story in cry of the newborn, shout for the dead really does up the ante. Read more
Published 4 months ago by DanT

3.0 out of 5 stars Average book from James
Whilst many would consider James as one of the authors to watch he is perhaps best known for his Raven series. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2007 by Gareth Wilson

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost overwhelming
A Shout for the Dead sees the conclusion of the two-part Ascendants of Estorea. Set ten years after Book 1, the Ascendants are now training and developing the next strand of... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2007 by Graham

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sequel
James Barclay's Shout for the Dead. This is the second part of his Ascendants duology. You need to read the first part really to understand this book fully. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2007 by disrep

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