There is always a worrying extent to which first fantasy novels, and especially first fantasy trilogies, are liable to consist of the same old ideas more or less meaningfully arranged. Sarah Douglass, in her first novel Battleaxe and this sequel, has not entirely escaped these charges, yet manages largely to evade them by a colourful pictori...more
The first volume in an exciting new fantasy series follows Faraday, a brave young woman, as she flees Gorgrael, the ice-lord, in the company of Axis, the leader of the Axe-Wielders and the hated half-brother of her betrothed, Borneheld. Reprint.
The Prophecy of the Destroyer is hurtling toward fulfillment, and Axis, Azhure, and Faraday are caught in its tumultuous wakeAll know the Prophecy of the Destroyer, a riddle that foretold how Axis would defeat his half-brother and lay claim to the land upon which Tencendor will be created. But prophecies can sometimes be mecurial things. Unanticipa...more
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