Blood of Amber
by:
Roger Zelazny (author)
Pursued by a fiendish enemy, Merle must battle through an intricate web of vengeance and murder that threatens more than the San Francisco Bay area. For Merle Corey of California is also Merlin, son of Corwin, vanished Prince of Amber; and the forces, seeking to destroy the royal house, have...
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Pursued by a fiendish enemy, Merle must battle through an intricate web of vengeance and murder that threatens more than the San Francisco Bay area. For Merle Corey of California is also Merlin, son of Corwin, vanished Prince of Amber; and the forces, seeking to destroy the royal house, have unleashed sorceries that can strike anywhere, especially at the very heart of Amber.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780380896363 (0380896362)
Publish date: July 1987
Publisher: Avon Books
Pages no: 215
Edition language: English
Series: The Chronicles of Amber -10 omnibus (#7)
La saga reprend de l'intérêt avec ce tome ci, alors que ce cycle était plus doux que le premier. On s'enfonce à nouveau dans les intrigues, les mystères et les complots. Le personnage principal devient extrêmement intéressant par sa dualité et l'univers d'Ambre prends de plus en plus forme.
I thought Zelazny really stepped it up on this one. The previous book in the series, Trumps Of Doom, featured a new character as the protagonist/narrator; Merlin, the son of Corwin of Amber, who narrated the first five books. In Trumps, Merlin failed to live up to his father's sheer coolness, and ...
Better than the previous episode, but still reads like Zelazny has no idea where he's going. There are far too many plots in progress, and yet Merlin doesn't even once consider going to the Courts of Chaos to see if they're involved.
Picking up where Trumps of Doom left off, Merle continues trying to figure out who's trying to kill him. Along the way, he discovers more about his friend Luke Raynard, saves the family from being killed at the funeral of one of their own, learns of previously unknown members of the royal family, a...