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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Death of a Darklord was a major departure for Laurell K. Hamilton when compared with her other writings. Here she weaves a dark tale of a corrupted land that attempts to destroy everything it touches and the struggles of a girl that discovers she has a strange magic flowing within her veins. Hamilton doesn't sugar coat the world of Kartakass or the evil that seeps from the very being of that land to decimate the people stuck there. This is one of Larell K . Hamilton's older books and it was almost painful reading it and remembering that once-upon-a-time she wrote books with actual plots and characters who were more than the clothes they wear. The book is good, but the ending kind of ruined it for me. SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING In most fantasy, the good guys win. I think this book is actually more properly classified as horror for that reason, since evil most definitely wins. It's still a great book, but I'm not a fan of "and it all ended horribly and the bad guys triumphed." Just a personal preference. I’m a big fan of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita and Merry series; which could be the reason I had such a hard time getting into this book. Death of a Darklord by Hamilton is nothing like Anita or Merry. So if you start to read this book thinking like that, you won’t enjoy it. Once I got over that it was nothing compared to Anita or Merry, I started to really get into it. The book centers around a group of people who are mage-finders. The theory is that all magic is evil and should be destroyed, at least, according to the leader of the group. However, their world gets turned upside down when it becomes apparent that one of them is an untrained mage. Elaine wasn’t trying to be a mage, but her natural talent was no longer pleased with being dormat. Between dealing with this newfound twist and the evil lurking in a city that beckons them, the group learns that everything they thought they knew is nothing like reality. I can’t find an excerpt, otherwise it would be here, but if you like DnD/Dragonlance/Ravenloft novels, than you should enjoy this one as well. http://www.literaryescapism.com/2006/08/20/20/ sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:In a land where magic is feared, a young mage must betray her own nature by joining the fight against dark sorcery There is a plague in the village of Cortton, a plague of the dead. Corpses walk the streets in search of the living. The villagers send for the mage-finder Jonathan Ambrose, for they believe evil magic is at work. They are right. Jonathan soon discovers who is behind the destruction of the town: Harkon Lukas, a wolfwere who plans to escape the bounds of his realm. All he needs to enact his scheme is the aid of Jonathan's adopted daughterâ??a young woman with a talent for magic in a land and family unforgiving of such abilities. Jonathan believes he is in Cortton to save the villagersâ??to lay the dead to rest. But if the vile shapechanger Harkon escapes his curse and can travel the Dark Domains as he pleases, the slaughter has only just No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Elaine starts out as a younger version of a Hamilton heroine: she has unusually great power and shows more of it as one reads on. Things go horribly wrong for her, though. Then it gets worse.
Yes, this book has no sex. I think the plot was improved by not being made to have as many reasons for the heroine to have sex as a TV show has breaks designed to make sure the viewer wants to see what happens next after the commercials.
Bottom line: read it as an unconnected horror novel and you probably won't be disappointed. I think I would have enjoyed it more had I known what it was when I started.
Fans of sadistic villains should find the one in this book to their taste. ( )