The Nameless Day (Crucible) - Hardcover

Douglass, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765303620 ISBN 13: 9780765303622

Publisher: Tor Books, 2004

Synopsis

In a tale set against a backdrop of plague-ridden, fourteenth-century Europe, Brother Thomas Neville is commanded by the Archangel Michael to stop the minions of Satan, who would take over the world as part of a larger plan to attack Heaven. By the author of Threshold. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

The Nameless Day, the first volume of Sarah Douglass's new 'Crucible' sequence, is set not in some faraway fantasy realm but in what both is and is not the Middle Ages of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death, a Middle Ages strangely truncated so that the Black Prince's conquest of France and Joan of Arc's attempt to save it are going on at the same time. Something demonic is going on -- a mysterious faction within the Church has failed to take the precautions that need to be taken and something has been unleashed: it is precisely because no-one trusts the warrior turned priest, Thomas Neville, that he finds himself lumbered with investigating what went wrong with the last journey of Brother Wynkyn thirty years before. Thomas thought his life was over having made the wrong choices, and gave up his old life to repent perpetually. But finding himself considered expendable by almost everybody and everything starts to change his mind.

This is an ingenious, passionate and more than slightly loopy fantasy, with vividly evoked landscapes of dangerous deadly beauty and ultimate disgust; the flawed self-hating Neville is as intriguing a character as Douglass has given us. -- Roz Kaveney

Review:

Praise for previous books in The Axis Trilogy:

‘BattleAxe is the best Australian fantasy novel I’ve experienced to date.’
Martin Livings, Eidolon

‘Enchanter is utterly enthralling and unputdownable.’
Karen Brooks, OzLit

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0765303620
• ISBN 13: 9780765303622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448