A Dance of Cloaks - David Dalglish • BookLikes (ISBN:9780316242417)

A Dance of Cloaks

by: David Dalglish (author)

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The Underworld rules the city of Veldaren. Thieves, smugglers, assassins... they fear only one man.

In book #1 of the Shadowdance series, Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets.

Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless - everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter from his own guild, he glimpses a world beyond piston, daggers, and the iron rule of his father.

Assassin or protector; every choice has its consequences.

Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.

Shadowdance

A Dance of Cloaks
A Dance of Blades
A Dance of Mirrors
A Dance of Shadows
A Dance of Ghosts
A Dance of Chaos
Seraphim

Skyborn
Fireborn
Shadowborn

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Format: ebook

ISBN: 9780316242417

Publish date: 2013-10-08

Publisher: Orbit

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Action, Dark Fantasy

Series: Shadowdance (#1)

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Debbie's Spurts rated it

8 years ago

http://donealrice.booklikes.com Debbie's Spurts 3.5 Review of "A Dance of Cloaks" (Shadowdance, #1) by David Dalglish

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I will be reading the next book in this series—which is probably the best indication of how I felt about the read. (No, this book did not end with a cliffhanger). It's fairly usual for fantasy genre gone a bit dark with thieves, assassins, corrupt folk in high places, religions, magics and a whif...

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want a real life adventure? come to Australia we have spiders bigger than your hand. rated it

9 years ago

http://ImagineDragonsFly.booklikes.com want a real life adventure? come to Australia we have spiders bigger than your hand. 3.5 A dance of Cloaks

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Not quite as good as The Way of The Shadows (which is why i rated this 3.5 stars, instead of 4) but a pretty entertaining read in its own right.At te end David explains he got his inspiration for this series from The Night Angel series and the Game of Throne Series, and i can certainly see there inv...

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Closet Geeks and Slow Mo rated it

10 years ago

http://deniz.booklikes.com Closet Geeks and Slow Mo 2.5 I wish I would have liked this one more

text I wish I would have liked this one more

It took me long enough to read this. Which should give you an indication why my rating is not that great. I need to point out, that I feel quite heartsore about it. I was really hoping I would love this. The synopsis sounds great! And I was sure that the only thing that could go wrong here was that ...

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The Paper Gardens rated it

12 years ago

http://Maki.booklikes.com The Paper Gardens 4.0 A Dance of Cloaks

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Fantasy stories take place in wonderful, magical worlds full of wizards and thieves, heroes and villains. In the end, the hero always manages to overcome all odds and save the day. David Dalglish takes normal fantasy stories, strips them of everything pure and decent, stabs them in the heart repeate...

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