Title: In the beginning was the darkness Original title: The Darkness That eat
Before Author: R. Scott Bakker
Gender: Fantasia epica (more or less)
Country of Origin: USA
Audience: 18 +
Editorial: Timun more
Pages: 560
Format: Rustic
Year: 2005
Price: $ 99 Mex
Original title: The warrior-prophet
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Gender: Fantasia epica (more or less)
Country of Origin: USA
Audience: 18 +
Editorial: Timun more
Pages: 600
Format: Rustic
Year: 2006
Price: $ 418 Mex
Original title: The thousandfold
Thought Author: R. Scott Bakker
Gender: Fantasia epica (more or less)
Country of Origin: USA
Audience: 18 +
Editorial: Timun more
Pages: 528
Format: Rustic
Year: 2007
Price: ----
wanted to talk about other books but after reading Salilakab input on Ghost Girl gave me for coming to tell you about this saga, I will discuss the complete trilogy because it is already available (except the third book, but a matter of time)
Well, the point is the part where used classic public desires to connect with the reader's novel, a story with "hook" usually has a protagonist who after going through some difficulties pays off in the usual way that is being sentimental correspondence, personal and stuff how well they sell, in summary as soap operas are being lyrics, (Who has not felt invisible? Who does not want to live an exciting romance? Who does not want to prove himself and come out victorious? Who does not want a happy ending?) This series in particular has been extremely nice to me because the author does not mind in the least what readers think, if reading Hewlett Packard (sorry, Harry Potter, I mistook the initials) said that if the reading HP is expected to be growing, becoming stronger and defeating the evil to be happy with his friends and his girlfriend then that is what you get at Prince of Nothing but the story manages to style old school: there are plenty of subjects with an attitude towards life and face the situation through this position, any possible insight is to analyze the world through the vision of each character, some are changing but the essence and the will remain from beginning to end, what changes are the circumstances and that makes them act differently in the beginning and
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Let us now in place, the story takes place in The Three Seas Westerners who come to be a vague area in the middle of who knows where but the fact is that there are the countries involved, something like Middle Earth, Osten Ard and other rare earths (lanthanides and actinides XD), which are divided into two monotheistic religions, the Fanime (subtitle: Muslims) and Inrithi (You guessed it, are Catholics) and of course, are in conflict. To be honest the author is hacking the Crusades and the story begins with an expedition to recover the Holy Land, there is also influence Tolkiana fueeeeerte creatures that come to be his own version of the orcs, golems and dragons but a super-powerful sorcerers harvest own aged in white oak barrels (eg ¬ ¬), said that sorcerers are ultra-super-duper-powerful but they die if played with little balls of metal that give the carrier immunity against the superpowers and also sorcerers are considered heretics by religion Inrithi so the delicate balance of power is tangible and almost from the start, the Wizards are strong but not invincible, and the needy are tolerated but never lifted
Now the truth is that I could tell you all about the scenario in which the story takes place and in no way affect the characters are pure action and these actions weigh both the interesting thing is that What do you do now? Not spend their lives questioning the meaning of life or dreaming about tomorrow, do things that justify their existence and arrive tomorrow. As I said the author has no interest in pleasing the reader (perhaps because they planned to publish his books and writing as a distraction) and the characters do not give rise to illusions, usually the characters are somewhat nice, good, young, beautiful, wise, kind, gentle, amusingly cynical, pleasantly arrogant, some of these things and their combinations and history makes us identify even a little and want something for that character but here the players are:
- A wizard-aged, overweight and cantankerous (all witches are bad-tempered its order, the reason for this is great)
- A prostitute beautiful and much given to introspection and to human thought ( human, not human) from time to time mourning her dead daughter and accepts human falsehood as something natural, even if it
- An aggressive self-proclaimed barbarian "The most violent among men with a past that causes problems of identity and that has clearly driven power
character - a diverse collection of noble attitude of a curious and noble manners
But best of all is the protagonist, from the beginning is shown as a superior being as strong and intelligent that it is impossible to identify with him in some measure, is freakishly perceptive, brutally cold and manipulative, the most intelligent of all the books I've read (drop dead with envy Kvota) except perhaps Muad'dib but that's for another entry
Since I am very keen to science fantasy worlds I like well-founded and that is why I loved the background to the powers and creatures, witchcraft is a very logical and metaphysical explanation functional and creatures or read, the author simply grab a concept never used so clearly in the epic fantasy and it did fit with a soft box worthy of a helical gear transmission (if the reference is rare but I want to sound like that) seriously, well beings are creatures like elves but pointy ears and everything is handled in a clear, credible and orderly, in fact more accurate explanation is in the glossary of the third book and it seems more a history lesson that gives a great, great meaning to the work
But I think I should tell you something else to engage
We are in year four thousand and the Pope (here called Shri) has launched a holy war to recover Shime, the holy city, the priests are heretics Fanime sorcerers who are considered blessed and beings to confront the church needs the help of sorcerers Inrithi land, called heretics, in the year two thousand took the Apocalypse in which an order sorcerers and general call awoke He consulted not God who had met with their power and commanded the hordes of Sranc (male hyena), the Bashrang (something like semiogros) and even had called the Wracu (Dragons), proud beings who were eager to worship, the war was accompanied by the scourge of Uterus curse for all babies born dead, and neither the army nor the Wizards managed to stop the No God and his hordes of creatures and humans, he consulted had risen invincible creating underground cities near his Ark, in those places abominations of the flesh Inchoroi inherited from the People of the Void that originally inhabited the Golden Ark, but in King Anasurimbor final battle had managed to activate the Lance de la Garza, a powerful, ancient and strange weapon of a different kind of witchcraft with which they had Not able to destroy God, finally the sorcerer Seswata Mandate established a school of wizards dedicated to fighting to the See which still had great power and to be worthy of them had inherited the Gnosis, a form of sorcery than anagogy practicing the other schools (a Gnostic magician is as strong as twelve sorcerers anagogical) also had the mission to wait for the Herald, because his king had prophesied that Armageddon would come in the second one of its offspring and should be prepared
Then in year four thousand and one man does get a message to the other side of the world "Send me my son" Hidden Fortress and a group of philosophers, scientists decide that whoever sent the message sent to die ... and his son, Anasurimbor Kellus to go to Shime, a city somewhere very south and kill his father
While the Scarlet Spires, the largest school of witchcraft involved in the war for their own reasons and coveting the Gnosis of the Mandate, who are now ridiculed for continuing the war against He consulted even though three centuries have gone before, but even if they spend thousand years the mandate can not abandon his mission and so the agent sent to keep the war does not cease in their suspicions
And this is how each faction tries to take over of the Holy War for their own purposes while they are with the remnants of a great past, but both sides are at the mercy of Kellus, the Prince of Nothing whose interests are above the wishes and intelligence is a brutal weapon The prince is the net
But once I warn that this has a happy ending or even a welcome development, there is an epic final battle to eliminate the evil of the world and discovering there are heroes truth of life is very interesting, damn interesting, but what exists is what is and is not made to please anyone, is running its own reality as a genuine world no more, no less
Finally, the first three books are the Prince of Nothing series , has announced a second part of two books called The Emperor looks and third in two more to close the cycle The Second Apocalypse
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