If there is one flaw I can find in this book it certainly lies in the heaviness of its writer's touch: true geniuses have this way of presenting us with anything by the softest and most beautifully simple language.Mr Brenchley's hand is heavy, rough.
The Devil in the Dust is the opening novel in Chaz Brenchley's exciting and acclaimed Outremer fantasy series. Published to great acclaim in the United Kingdom several years ago, the series is only now seeing print in the United States.
An intriguing alternate-Crusades novel, start of a series. Marron, a young member of an authoritarian Templar-like order, and Julianne and Elisande, two young noblewomen, must face conflicting loyalties and dark magic in a world on the brink of holy war.
I am so sad I wasted my money on this Homoerotic crap. I wish there would have been a warning label on the jacket somewhere.
I picked this book up only because I didn't have much money on me, and fell in love with the series. His writting style is wonderful and the story line easy to follow.
First of all let me qualify the five stars by saying that if I had paid over [$$$] for this I would have given it only four stars, but the low price that you pay for a relatively high quality book pushes this into the five star range.While I don't like to delve too deeply into plot it is worth mentioning that this book takes place in a world where magic does occor, but magic does not supply most of the major plot points (although that may be the case later in the series).
This is an excellent beginning to a fantasy series. I was browsing looking for an alternative to all the multi-thousand page fantasy epics.
The nobles' younger sons from another land wanting their own territory and titles settled the kingdom of Outremer. Although the king is the nominal ruler of the land it is four city-states and one, Surayon, that is magically closed and invisible to all outsiders.
This is an engrossing Fantasy novel that slips close to horror on a few occasions. Being about a young man that is raised to become a knight and has very little exposure to the outside world, only knowing the limited existence that he was raised in.
A bit grim but fairly well written. =).
I am not sure how to describe this book. It is quite different from other fantasies that I have read.
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