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Pertenece a las seriesDark Ages {World of Darkness} (Vampire - Novel) The Grails Covenant (Book 1) World of Darkness (Dark Ages)
Obsessed with acquiring the Holy Grail for the Lasombra clan, the vampire Montrovant sets out on a quest that puts him against the Knights Templar, and sends him through the lair of an ancient Egyptian evil and the deserts of the Holy Land. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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David Niall Wilson managed to make an unrepentant and ruthless egotist, afflicted by a deep-seated obsession with an overriding goal, into a compelling antihero that somehow managed to make me into a believer in his self-assigned mission, urging him on to victory after reprehensible victory against incredible odds. Wilson conveyed the compulsion of the main character so vibrantly that the reader, for a time, might share it with the heartless bloodsucker who drove the plot. This, at the heart of it, might be the real genius of Wilson's "The Grail's Covenant" trilogy: the exceedingly rare, brilliantly executed example of how a forceful personality on the printed page can drive the plot so monomaniacally that there is no room for things to just happen to him the way they do in more passive-aggressive writing such as is found in pop-fiction like the Harry Potter series. The author's talent for often succinct, never laboriously long, always evocative description adds great weight to the positive experience of reading this book, as well.
As the opening salvo in a new series, To Sift Through Bitter Ashes was truly remarkable, and even more so when one considers this was accomplished within the constraints of a "professional fanfic" genre. ( )