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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New Ed edition (12 May 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575076461
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575076464
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The grip of the Weavers on Saramyr's rulers has grown ever tighter. And all the while the blight that they have brought to the land grips ever more harshly. This cannot last and, sure enough, the land is slipping into civil war. In the growing chaos Kaiku and the orphaned heir-Empress must fight for their destiny and their survival as Saramyr succumbs to the twisting of the Weave and the unknowable ambitions of the secretive Weavers. Chris Wooding has created a vivid and turbulent world with an authentic oriental air and its own rich and ancient history. Across this world plays an action packed plot of politics, violence and betrayal. This is an extraordinary fantasy for the 21st century.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent follow up, 20 Jun 2004
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This review is from: The Skein Of Lament: Book Two of the Braided Path: Skein of Lament Bk.2 (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
After the refreshingly different Weavers Of Saramyr I was looking forward tot his book immensely and on the whole I was not disappointed.
Five years have passed since the events of the first book, and it's to Wooding's credit that he doesn't feel bound to bore you with the incidental details of this period, dumping the reader straight into the action and letting them slowly pick up how the landscape has changed.
The characters, both those we know from the first book and those new additions in this remain three-dimensional rather than the cut outs often supplied in other fantasy novels. There is a wonderful feeling of growth and change, something missing from characters all to often, and perhaps even better the line between good and evil is becoming steadily blurred as scope of the threat facing our hero's is slowly revealed, which leads these stories a feel of cosmic malevolence almost worthy of Lovecraft (though woodings work The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray is closer to that feel).
There is for me only two bad points about this book. Firstly the repetition of certain words, for example there is quite a bit of climbing taking place and the term "purchase" crops up quite a lot. Perhaps a better editor might have helped?
Secondly, one of the central ideas behind the dnager facing the world in the book will be familar to thosewho read even a smattering of fantasy literature, but it's all handled so well, you cant help but overlook any unorignality. Like a good cook, Mr Wooding may not have invented the ingredients, but he bakes a mean cake!
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