Dusk

✍ Scribed by Lebbon, Tim

• Book ID: 107097368
• Publisher: Spectra
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 314 KB
• Series: Noreela 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780553588415

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Well-drawn characters and a literate way with the grisly distinguish this first of a new fantasy series from Stoker-winner Lebbon (_Desolation_). Long after the Cataclysmic War that devastated the world and banished magic, the Mages are trying to ensure that the magic, if it returns, is under their control. When farm boy Rafe Baburn shows signs of magical gifts, the Mages send their relentless minions, the Red Monks, in pursuit. Rafe must flee for his life, but fortunately he finds allies in a thief, a woman warrior and a scholarly witch. Many of the well-handled action scenes are from the bad guys' point-of-view, an unusual perspective that helps round out the author's fantasy world. The climactic battle, a variation on the classic raising of the dead, offers an ambiguous outcome that presumably will be resolved in the sequel.
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Review

"Well-drawn characters and a literate way with the grisly distinguish this first of a new fantasy series from Stoker-winner Lebbon.... any of the well-handled action scenes are from the bad guys' point-of-view, an unusual perspective that helps round out the author's fantasy world."—_Publishers Weekly_

"Tim Lebbon displays the sort of cool irony and uncanny mood-making that drive the best _Twilight Zone *stories."—*New York Times Book Review

_“This is fantasy for grown-ups….An excellent book.”—Paul Kearney
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