The Sundering
This is a two-in-one volume with both of Jacqueline Carey's top sellers Banewreaker and Godslayer. (Inside jacket: with her successful Kushiel series, Jacqueline Carey proved herself a force to be reckoned with in the fantasy field. Now she returns with another extraordinary epic, a shattering...
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This is a two-in-one volume with both of Jacqueline Carey's top sellers Banewreaker and Godslayer. (Inside jacket: with her successful Kushiel series, Jacqueline Carey proved herself a force to be reckoned with in the fantasy field. Now she returns with another extraordinary epic, a shattering tale of gods at ware and the mortals they use in their deadly game.) Once the Seven Shapers dwelled in accord. First-born among them wasHaomane, Lord-of-Thought, and with his six sibling gods, they Shaped the world and its children to their will. But Haomane wasdispleased with Satoris' Shaping, for he thought his younger brother too generous in his gifts to Men, who made war upon Hoamane's Children, the Ellylon. Though the First-Born asked his brother to withdraw his Gift, Satoris refused. So began the Shapers' War, which sundered the world and cast Satoris and his kindred to opposite ends of a vast ocean.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780739456903 (0739456903)
ASIN: 739456903
Publish date: August 2005
Publisher: SFBC Fantasy
Pages no: 733
Edition language: English
Series: The Sundering (#1)
In The Sundering, Carey tells a story inspired by The Lord of the Rings, and tells it primary from the "bad guy" point of view. The book presents nicely layered characters and good battle sections. It is very much in the tradition of The Lord of the Rings even in the style, which is different sli...