Den Patrick
Autore di The Boy with the Porcelain Blade
Serie
Opere di Den Patrick
People, Places and Things 1 copia
Opere correlate
Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (2013) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1975-11-08
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Dorset, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, UK
- Attività lavorative
- comics editor
bookseller - Agente
- Juliet Mushens (The Agency Group)
Julie Crisp
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 327
- Popolarità
- #72,482
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 32
- Lingue
- 2
As the story begins, Anea is imprisoned in the oubliette below one of the palaces of Demesne, a place where to drink the waters is to lose your memory, as in the Greek myth concerning the waters of Lethe, drunk by the dead. But help from a sympathetic guard, plus her own courage, leads her to find a way out and eventually to recruit allies to resist the controlling powers. Meanwhile, Eris is alternately bored, afraid and angry in her role of posing as Anea, which she has done in the mistaken belief that her brother would receive urgent medical attention. She hates and fears both the Domina, Anea's former friend Russo and now Eris' immediate superior, and their shadowy master, Erebus. He is the ultimate puppet master who seeks to manipulate events to bring about war in Landfall and thereby overthrow the rule of true humans in favour of the genetically modified underkin produced by the late King - a class which Anea and her two half-brothers had been elevated from to become privileged experiments.
I didn't enjoy this volume as much as the preceding two. Part of the reason was an extended gap between finishing the second book and starting this, so I had forgotten who quite a few of the more minor characters were, and found it difficult to keep straight the various noble Houses. There was enough dropped into the story to eventually enable me to recall some of the previous events, but I also missed my favourite character from the first two novels.