The Second Empire (The Monarchies Of God, Book Four)
by Paul Kearney | Science Fiction & Fantasy | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1857987519 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1857987519 Global Overview for this book
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Amazon.co.uk Product Description:
"Amazon.co.uk Review
Paul Kearney's high fantasy series The Monarchies of God reaches its fourth volume with The Second Empire. These tales of war, discovery and religious turmoil in a world that is not quite our own late Middle Ages or early Renaissance, but has strong resemblance to both, have been characterised by strong characters and biting emotional dilemmas. Here a general is forced to take a throne by marriage, uncertain whether his captured wife is living or dead; a captain sails for home, aware that he is bringing back secrets which might be best left on another continent; a magician parleys with ultimate evil knowing what the cost might be and a Pope tries to persuade men of good will that, for once, all religions really are the same. This is powerful stuff, intelligently written and with a real sense of the dark corridors and windy battlements of the palaces in which so much of it is set. Kearney does not only write good battles--he remembers the causes that battles are fought for. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Winter lies cold and dark upon the world; it seems that spring will never come. Once dismissed as the ravings of a crazed hermit, the prophecies of Honorius seem at last to be coming true. In the harbour of Old Abrusio, the Gabrian Osprey lies docked at last, home from her long voyaging. Only a handful of shocked survivors remain of that proud expedition that set forward almost a year before . . . but they are not alone. Something has come with them from the uttermost west."
"Amazon.co.uk Review
Paul Kearney's high fantasy series The Monarchies of God reaches its fourth volume with The Second Empire. These tales of war, discovery and religious turmoil in a world that is not quite our own late Middle Ages or early Renaissance, but has strong resemblance to both, have been characterised by strong characters and biting emotional dilemmas. Here a general is forced to take a throne by marriage, uncertain whether his captured wife is living or dead; a captain sails for home, aware that he is bringing back secrets which might be best left on another continent; a magician parleys with ultimate evil knowing what the cost might be and a Pope tries to persuade men of good will that, for once, all religions really are the same. This is powerful stuff, intelligently written and with a real sense of the dark corridors and windy battlements of the palaces in which so much of it is set. Kearney does not only write good battles--he remembers the causes that battles are fought for. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
Winter lies cold and dark upon the world; it seems that spring will never come. Once dismissed as the ravings of a crazed hermit, the prophecies of Honorius seem at last to be coming true. In the harbour of Old Abrusio, the Gabrian Osprey lies docked at last, home from her long voyaging. Only a handful of shocked survivors remain of that proud expedition that set forward almost a year before . . . but they are not alone. Something has come with them from the uttermost west."
Journal Entry 2 by Davros-10 at OLI Staff Carpark, Cnr Hope & Peel Streets in South Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (7/9/2008 UTC) at OLI Staff Carpark, Cnr Hope & Peel Streets in South Brisbane, Queensland Australia
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Going in to where I used to work at South Brisbane one last time to drop off some things and am going to put books on everyone's car in the car park to say goodbye. This is one of them.
Released for the 2008 Never Judge A Book By Its Cover Release Challenge: Week 27 (X, Y or Z in the title of the book or the author's name).
This book is also one I registered for the 2008 Australian Bookcrossing Convention last weekend, but unfortunately neither KEMS nor I was able to make it.
Going in to where I used to work at South Brisbane one last time to drop off some things and am going to put books on everyone's car in the car park to say goodbye. This is one of them.
Released for the 2008 Never Judge A Book By Its Cover Release Challenge: Week 27 (X, Y or Z in the title of the book or the author's name).
This book is also one I registered for the 2008 Australian Bookcrossing Convention last weekend, but unfortunately neither KEMS nor I was able to make it.
This book isn't the type I normally read but I'll definitely read it and then release it back into Brisbane somewhere.
CAUGHT IN BRISBANE QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA
CAUGHT IN BRISBANE QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA