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Shadowmasque (Paperback)
by Michael Cobley (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (6 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743256824
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743256827
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 573,996 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Paperback (New Ed) |  All Editions


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Synopsis
300 years after the end of the Great Shadowking War, evil is seeping out into the world once more. Emperor Magramon is dead and his only son, Ilgarion, will finally ascend to the Khatrimantine throne, guided by the Archmage Tangaroth and protected by the Iron Guard. But dark undercurrents are moving beneath the surface of life in Sejeend, the imperial capital, and the agents of an old and malign power are plotting and waiting. Only the Order of Watchers, a band of renegade mages, has any inkling of what is afoot and their investigations lead to grotesque and violent confrontations. But Ilgarion is obsessed with the empire's enemies, imagined or otherwise, and his pursuit of them can only bring about turmoil. Into this web of uncertainty Corlek Ondene, former captain of the Iron Guard, unknowingly walks and sets in motion a string of clashing events. Can Tashil, Dardan, the Countess Ayoni, and the other Watcher mages, root out the source of evil before its terrifying hunger is set loose? And can the poet Calabos, elderly leader of the Watchers, keep his real identity a secret through all the nightmarish encounters he will undergo?

For the faces of Night dance with the faces of Day, but the weaver of Fate dances alone.


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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Fantasy Genius, 23 Sep 2005
By Peri Urban "periurban" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Cobley borrows from the best, makes it his own, and brings us something wonderful.

The strength of his writing lies in the attention to detail. Locations are lovingly sculpted, dialogue is fresh and natural, whilst still retaining the neccessary idioms of fantasy.

Like all the best fantasy books the Shadowkings series is at once utterly strange and strangely familiar. You have stumbled across ideas like these before, but you can't quite put your finger on where.

But then Cobley shifts gear and you realise you are in uncharted territory. At times it's more like being in some hallucinatory computer game than reading a book, the settings are so well realised.

If I had to point out a weakness it would be the amount of exposition, but in this latest volume that is thankfully brief, and slotted into place in the action, rather than interrupting the narrative. This is a failing of the form, rather than any inherent flaw in Cobley's skill (although I long for the day when someone finds a way around this).

It is a story of dark powers and how they never really go away; of mages and unlucky fools; of heroe