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Casket of Souls (2012)

por Lynn Flewelling

Otros autores: Virginia Norey (Map maker)

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Series: Nightrunner (6)

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The Nightrunners are back in this gripping novel full of Lynn Flewelling's trademark action, intrigue, and richly imagined characters. nbsp; More than the dissolute noblemen they appear to be, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicated to serving queen and country. But when they stumble across evidence of a plot pitting Queen Phoria against Princess Klia, the two Nightrunners will find their loyalties torn as never before. Even at the best of times, the royal court at Rhíminee is a serpents' nest of intrigue, but with the war against Plenimar going badly, treason simmers just below the surface. And that's not all that poses a threat: A mysterious plague is spreading through the crowded streets of the city, striking young and old alike. Now, as panic mounts and the body count rises, hidden secrets emerge. And as Seregil and Alec are about to learn, conspiracies and plagues have one thing in common: The cure can be as deadly as the disease.… (más)
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A wonderful installment full of all the mystery, intrigue and suspense I crave in a Flewelling book. Though this is the second to last in the series, I felt it could have been a first book, setting up a whole world of possibilities and paths for Alec and Seregil to follow. I'm actually pretty devastated to move on to the final book of the series, but that's always a sign of the BEST books.

Read it! ( )
  BreePye | Oct 6, 2023 |
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In questo sesto volume, Seregil e Alec si trovano ad affrontare qualcosa di estremamente pericoloso. Da una parte, ci sono due fazioni politiche in guerra: l'una vorrebbe uccidere Phoria e la sua erede e mettere Klia sul strono, l'altra vorrebbe proteggere Elani, la legittima erede in caso Phoria morisse in guerra. Ma c'è dell'altro: una misteriosa malattia sta colpendo le parti più basse della popolazione, soprattutto bambini, e quando Alec e Seregil si rendono conto della situazione, non possono fare a meno di intervenire e cercare una cura.

Questa è una delle serie che amo di più, e non solo perché i protagonisti sono lgbt e stanno insieme. La Flewelling riesce sempre a creare storie estramamente complesse che vanno avanti su diversi livelli e che si intrecciano per creare qualcosa di fantastico.
In questo sesto volume, l'intrigo politico è uno degli argomenti principali, al contrario dell'azione che vediamo sul campo di battaglia con Klia e Beka. Personalmente, non è una cosa che mi disturba, anzi. Trovo estremamente soddisfacente quando Seregil e Alec devono fare laovoro di spionaggio e buttarsi negli intrighi di corte, perché è quello che rende questi libri speciali.
Ovviamente non ci si è scordati di quello che è accaduto nel volume precedente, e i rimandi a Sebrhan sono estremamente dolorosi, sia per Alec che per noi.

Dopo sei libri penso di conoscere questi personaggi davvero bene. Ho sofferto con loro per i rimandi a Sebrahn, e anche di più per quello che accade attorno a loro in Casket of Souls.
Alec, pur non essendo innocente quanto nei primi volumi, non è ancora del tutto a suoi agio negli intrighi di corte, mentre Seregil ne è praticamente saturo. Vederli in azione dopo tutto quello che hanno passato è, dal punto di vista umano, sì doloroso ma anche interessante.
Qui si ci concentra molto anche su Thero, che finalmente sembra avere altri sentimenti oltre al vecchio e passato disprezzo per Seregil. È diventato, a poco a poco, uno dei miei preferiti. In questo sesto volume è essenziale, e lo shippo tantissimo con Klia.
E poi ci sono gli attori: una compagnia davvero strana a capo di cui c'è Atre. Disgustosamente servile e doppiogiochista, oltre che tronfio, è sicuramente il personaggio che più ho disprezzato tra i libri letti quest'anno. E credo che non verrà superato da nessun altro. Non voglio dire altro, per paura di spoilerare, ma io vi ho avvisati.

Lo stile della Flewelling non è esattamente leggero, ma neanche troppo pesante. La storia è complessa e credo sia quello a rallentare un po' la lettura, perché c'è molto da tenere a mente. Detto questo, per questi liri serve un livello di Inglese abbastanza alto, e no, la traduzione italiana non c'è: la Nord ha smesso di pubblicarli dopo il secondo volume.

Nel complesso, una delle letture migliori dell'anno, e, se potete, vi consiglio di leggere questa serie! ( )
  thereadingpal | Jun 14, 2022 |
Seriously enjoyable and well written. ( )
  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |
Now that. That was a fascinating bit of madness. ( )
  wetdryvac | Mar 2, 2021 |
Covers this book but also some of the whole series.

Casket of Souls is the latest in Lynn Flewelling’s Nightrunner series. This series centers on two characters, Seregil and Alec, and their friends. They are very well developed characters, as are all the supporting characters. I’ll stick to Casket of Souls as it was the one published in 2012. Alec and Seregil have been working together as thieves and ‘information gatherers’ since the first book in the series, when Alec tried to steal Seregil’s coin pouch. Since then, he has taken Alec under his wing and trained him to be an expert thief and housebreaker, and where to look for important documents. When they are at home in Rhiminee, Seregil, who is very widely known for his eccentricities and outrageous behavior, also acts unbeknownst to the people who ask for help from the Rhiminee Cat. They inevitably fall into some sort of danger or plot and return to one of two places, Seregil’s former mentor’s tower where he apprenticed unsuccessfully to be a magician under Nysander’s tutelage. The other place is Seregil’s friend Micum Cavish’s house where he lives with his wife and growing number of children. This series does involve a relationship developing between Seregil and Alec, which they don’t even discuss until the end of the second book, so I was very disappointed to see in some of the reviews on Amazon that people still reading the first book were making comments such as, “Was reading this and enjoying it then realized it was one of those kind of books and threw it away in disgust.” Their relationship is mostly subtle, sometimes made fun of by relatives because they are so in love—they are essentially bound together. There is nothing explicit—Glimpses—a collection of fan art and short stories written by Flewelling elaborate on some of those experiences, Alec and Seregil’s first time together, for example, but those types of scenes don’t come up in the series itself (but if you’re into the series, Glimpses is a really nice companion volume). Anyway, I found it annoying that someone could be genuinely enjoying a story and then realize there’s a m/m relationship in it so out the window it goes. Casket of Souls finds Seregil and Alec running into a group of players (theatre) who are taking audiences by storm, and at the same time find out information that the Queen is plotting against the Princess, who is already engaged in a war. Then a plague starts to spread. I read this so long ago—I wish I remembered the details better. The main player has something to do with it, capturing souls in bottles and using them to keep eternally young. Nysander’s apprentice at the time of his death, Thero, who started out as an arrogant somewhat one sided character novels ago, is now a magician of some repute who Seregil and Alec know they can count on as much as they did Nysander. Thero is still arrogant at times, but he’s also developing a sense of humor and has fallen in love with the princess the Queen is plotting against, supplying her with ways to contact him if she needs help (this mostly happened in the previous installment in the series, when a diplomatic trip was taken to Seregil’s old homeland that he was exiled from thirty years earlier for being caught in a relationship with another man. He’s uncomfortable with the trip, but Alec meets his family, and they all like him. Thero is working with Princess Klia on her mission, spending most of his time with her, and they fall in love. I went backward instead of forward, didn’t I? I think it’s important to mention in here somewhere that Seregil is Aurënen, an almost Elven type race, and Alec is half-hâzadriëlfaie, another clan of elvish type people who are more secretive than Seregil’s clan. Everything is sorted at the end of Casket of Souls (sorry, that has to be one of the worst reviews ever—if I wrote the reviews right after I read the book it would be better—I originally read this in May). Sadly, there is going to be only one more book in this series. I have become quite attached to the characters, so even while I might not always get the plots straight, the writing and development of the characters are so good I do really feel unhappy there is only one more book. Oh well, I can always start them over. ( )
  waclements7 | Oct 27, 2015 |
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The Nightrunners are back in this gripping novel full of Lynn Flewelling's trademark action, intrigue, and richly imagined characters. nbsp; More than the dissolute noblemen they appear to be, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicated to serving queen and country. But when they stumble across evidence of a plot pitting Queen Phoria against Princess Klia, the two Nightrunners will find their loyalties torn as never before. Even at the best of times, the royal court at Rhíminee is a serpents' nest of intrigue, but with the war against Plenimar going badly, treason simmers just below the surface. And that's not all that poses a threat: A mysterious plague is spreading through the crowded streets of the city, striking young and old alike. Now, as panic mounts and the body count rises, hidden secrets emerge. And as Seregil and Alec are about to learn, conspiracies and plagues have one thing in common: The cure can be as deadly as the disease.

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