The Third God

✍ Scribed by Pinto, Ricardo

• Book ID: 107775622
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 859 KB
• Series: Stone Dance of the Chameleon 3
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Amidst the massacre he helped bring about, Carnelian is now desperate to find a way to avoid more carnage. His spurned lover Osidianseeking revenge and determined to win back his stolen thronehas deliberately stoked the wrath of the Masters who rule the world from its center, Osrakum. Osidian's actions threaten to overturn the repressive order of the Commonwealth, and Carnelian soon learns that he and those he loves are inextricably enmeshed in the terrible power game of the Masters. If he is to survive, he has no choice but to stand with Osidian in defiance of the invincible power of the Masters. In his struggle, Carnelian will unleash apocalyptic forces that will bring his world to a reckoning none could have foreseen, though it has been simmering for 4,000 years.

From Publishers Weekly

This concluding volume in Pinto's debut trilogy (after 2003's The Standing Dead) continues the life story of Carnelian Suth as he and his lover, Osidian, leave their exile in the barbarian lands of the Earthsky and race toward an apocalyptic confrontation with the God Emperor in Osrakum. Never using one word when three will do, Pinto evokes a vaguely West Asian mystique amid the tale of the decline of an imperial oligarchy. The narrative, however, gets lost in its own heft, leaving the reader struggling to keep track of characters, understand created words and hunt for shreds of plot. Powerful themes of love and loss dominate Carnelian's tale, but deadpan delivery, a myopic focus on one character, repetitious introspection and lengthy exposition turn a potentially gripping story into a snooze. (Dec.)
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Review

"Outstanding . . . a new kind of writing . . . Pinto is blazing a trail where others, no doubt, will follow." Amanda Foreman, author, The Duchess

"A remarkable feast which I avidly consumed." Dennis L. McKiernan, author, The Eye of the Hunter

"Boldly conceived and intelligently written . . . lingers in the memory like a strange and disturbing dream." Interzone

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