Sailing to Sarantium
Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces,...
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Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive-and unexpectedly discovers it high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451463517 (045146351X)
Publish date: September 7th 2010
Publisher: Roc Trade
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
High Fantasy,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Speculative Fiction,
Alternate History,
Canada
Series: The Sarantine Mosaic (#1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay excels at writing those moments when the world stops, the characters hold their breath, and I do too. Those moments when powers beyond comprehension are right in front of you (worldly or supernatural), and no one knows what the outcome will be, where everything hangs on a knife's edg...
I hadn't expected this to be so incomplete. I knew it was part of a series, but I expected some closure, some logical end-point. I really feel as if I've just read half a book.The prologue was unbearable. I would've given up on the book completely if my husband hadn't already read it and assured me ...
I have a love-hate relationship with Kay’s work: loved Tigana, really liked Song for Arbonne, put Lions of Al-Rassan down in disgust halfway through. (Last Light of the Sun is the only one I’ve been ambivalent about so far.) Maybe this book is too similar to Lions for me--and most people seem to lov...
See my review of the mass market paperback read in June 2010. I purchased this trade paperback for my permanent collection. Very highly recommended.
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