The Alchemist of Souls
When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers wake, bringing Native American goods and a skrayling ambassador to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want...
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When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers wake, bringing Native American goods and a skrayling ambassador to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I s capital? Mal Catlyn, a down-at-heel swordsman, is seconded to the ambassador's bodyguard, but assassination attempts are the least of his problems. What he learns about the skraylings and their unholy powers could cost England her new ally and Mal his soul
źródło opisu: Publisher: Angry Robot Books
źródło okładki: Publisher: Angry Robot Books
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780857662132
Publish date: 5 kwietnia 2012
Publisher: Angry Robot Books
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Series: Night's Masque (#1)
A good idea with a nice setting but extremely slow and often the writing was poor. Characters mildly annoying in a 2D-way and far too many of them. The only interesting part were the Skraylings, but they did not turn up quick enough.
The Alchemist of Souls is the first book in the Night's Masque trilogy and was a total guts buy for me. Both this book and the second in the trilogy, The Merchant of Dreams, were part of the a Kindle daily deal, each for $1.99. I had never heard of them, nor had I heard any buzz about them and the...
It is ok. That is all I have to say. 2.5 is the highest I would give, but Mal was boring. The prose dragged. The book tried to be everything. But it was a bit higgledy piggeldy.
An impeccably-researched alt-history set late in Queen Elizabeth I's reign.In this world there are two main points of difference. Elizabeth married and bore two sons, and there is a race of people called "skraylings" who come from Vinland (Newfoundland). Presumably this is a play on 'skraeling', wh...
I actually picked this book up because I saw the second book, which looked really good to me. (I almost bought it, too, until someone pointed out to me that it was the second book in the series.) So, I read this one first even though the description didn't grab me as immediately.That last sentence p...
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