Lord of Castle Black: Book Two of the Viscount of Adrilankha: 2 - Softcover

Brust, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765330318 ISBN 13: 9780765330314

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2013

Synopsis

Journeys! Intrigues! Sword fights! Young persons having adventures! Beloved older characters having adventures too! Quests! Battles! Romance! Snappy dialogue! Extravagant food! And the missing heir to the Imperial Throne!

It's an old-fashioned adventure--moving at a twenty-first-century pace.

The Interregnum is over. To everyone's astonishment, Zerika, a very young Phoenix, has coolly emerged from the Paths of the Dead, carrying with her the Orb, which everyone had thought was lost in Adron's Disaster. The Orb is the heart of the Dragaeran Empire, the source of all its magic--and the infallible sign that Zerika is the new Empress.

But not everyone is happy to hear the news. It's been 250 years since Adron's Disaster, and power vacuums never stay vacuums for long....

About this title

Review:

"Captivating!" --Kirkus Reviews

"Delightful, exciting, and sometimes brilliant, Steven Brust is the latest in a line of great Hungarian writers, which (I have no doubt) includes Alexandre Dumas, C. S. Forester, Mark Twain, and the author of the juiciest bits of the Old Testament." --Neil Gaiman

"There's at least one point in any Steven Brust novel when the story turns the lights on in your head, when you realize, not what's important to the characters, but what's important to you. That's one of the reasons why I'll read anything Brust writes." --Emma Bull

"Watch Steven Brust. He's good. He moves fast. He surprises you. Watching him untangle the diverse threads of intrigue, honor, character and mayhem from amid the gears of a world as intricately constructed as a Swiss watch is a rare pleasure." --Roger Zelazny

From the Back Cover:

The Lord of Castle Black
Book Two of The Viscount of Adrilankha

"Delightful, exciting, and sometimes brilliant, Steven Brust is the latest in a line of great Hungarian writers, which (I have no doubt) includes Alexandre Dumas, C. S. Forester, Mark Twain, and the author of the juiciest bits of the Old Testament." -Neil Gaiman

"Filled with high adventure, intrigues, a great deal of good humor, and moments of genuine hilarity, this is easily Brust's most mature and entertaining work to date. It's rare for a book over four hundred pages to seem as short as this one. It's even rarer to find one that seems likely to satisfy such a broad range of reader expectations, humor, adventure, intrigue, and wit all in the same package."-Science Fiction Chronicle on Five Hundred Years After

"As always, Brust invests Vlad with the panache of a Dumas musketeer and the colloquial voice of one of Zelazny's Amber heroes. This is a rousing adventure with enough humor, action, and sneaky plot twists to please newcomers as well as longtime series fans."-Publishers Weekly on Issola

"Steven Brust might just be America's best fantasy writer." -Tad Williams

"Steven Brust, in a genre that's mostly done by the numbers these days, maintains a hipster charm and an originality of mind." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0765330318
• ISBN 13: 9780765330314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Nielsen Hayden Teresa