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Jack Of Ravens: Kingdom of the Serpent: Book 1 (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)

by Mark Chadbourn (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (20 Jul 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575078006
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575078000
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 561,312 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Chadbourn has achieved significant depth and emotional engagement and that can't be a bad thing. Mark Chadbourn always plays for high stakes in his novels and this latest offering is no different."


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"Chadbourn has achieved significant depth and emotional engagement and that can't be a bad thing. Mark Chadbourn always plays for high stakes in his novels and this latest offering is no different." (Sandy Auden SFX )

"The first book in the remix of Mark Chadbourn's work offers a more gritty take on a war between good, evil and indifference. Think the spirit of V for Vendetta mixed with Neal Stephenson's historicism and infused by the spirit of Shakespeare's Puck: a featured character certain to invigorate future books." (EDGE )
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Brilliant, 21 Jul 2006
I could not put this book down! I was awake until 4am reading it just because I had to know what happened. This follows on from both Always Forever and Hounds of Avalon. All hope has been lost but Jack Churchill is fighting his way back to the future to Ruth, whom he knows he loves, but can't remember much else after being thrown back in time.

I'm not really doing it justice here... This book was so beautifully researched I'm sure it could be used as a history textbook. It opens your eyes to different eras of history, yet keeps the people real... The year may be different, but underneath it all people are fundamentally the same. The same hopes and the same struggles and I think that's one of the important messages in the book.

This is the first in a new series, and my hopes are big. It has already impressed me far more than the Dark Age trilogy, mainly due to The Queen of Sinister, which I felt to be a bit lacking in depth, with characters that didn't really resonate with me. Here we have the original (and best!) five, almost back in business, struggling against despair to become champions once again.

This book wraps up nicely at the end, with a satisfying ending, but it also leaves you with a sense of dread, because other events at the end make you realise everything is not going to be ok. And it's this feeling which has got me filled with so much anticipation for the next book - I can't wait!

Chadbourn's completely on form, and he shows here better than ever his ability to show you the people at the heart of humanity, and makes you feel like you know them better than yourself. Worth it, undoubtedly.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Fantasy, 1 Aug 2006
By disrep (Somerset) - See all my reviews
Jack of Ravens is a great read and a massive scamper through history from Celtic times, Romans, Elizabethan, the Blitz through to the 60's and America. If you haven't read the previous books it doesn't matter, you will just get a slightly different perspective on it.

If you have read them then you will be pleased to be reunited with the original Brothers and Sisters of Dragons. There is some good dry humour in amongst the action and tension. The characters have plenty of flaws and a sense of evil truely comes out from the villains. I couldn't put it down either and as usual I was left with plenty to think about. :)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tightening threads on the web of existence, 21 Aug 2006
By Breakfast (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This book, begins a third sequence in the "modern-world collapsing as technology fails and magic returns" setting that marked out the Age Of Misrule and Dark Age sequences as two of the most interesting fantasy trilogies of recent years.

All of the Chadbourn features are here- credibly flawed characters, taut writing, deep research and a plot that absolutely tears along, but this book has an engaging warmth to it that draws the reader in more than it's predecessors. Perhaps it's the return to familiar characters ( you should certainly read the Age Of Misrule books before starting this one- in fact, you should read them anyway as they're great ) or something about the way they grow through a story which revolves around the importance of hope and humanity but I felt more emotionally engaged by this than any of it's predecessors.

Running behind the scenes of reality, on a whistlestop tour of some of history's more mysterious corners, this is a very promising start to the new trilogy.
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