Dark Is The Moon: The View From The Mirror, Volume Three (A Three Worlds Novel) - Softcover

Irvine, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841490385 ISBN 13: 9781841490380

Publisher: Orbit, 2001

Synopsis

Fantasy - Rulke the Great Betrayer is free at last to use the deadly construct he has spent a thousand years perfecting. To succeed he needs just one thing - Karan's unique sensitive talent. Karan and her lover Llian are lost in the Nightland and only Rulke has the power to open the gate and send them home.

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Review:

In Dark is the Moon, the third volume of Ian Irvine's "The View from the Mirror" quartet, the web of intrigue and magical betrayal that passes for politics in the world of Santhenar has reached a point of complexity where even its master players are feeling the strain. One of the few constants in Irvine's imagined world--the passionate erotic love between scholar/chronicler Llian and woman warrior Karan--starts to become unravelled when they are trapped with the evil mage Rulke in his semi-material place of exile, the Nightland; his seduction of the obsessional Llian with eye-witness testimony of the past is painful to watch. Nor is Rulke the cliché dark lord of much fantasy writing, he is a man who thinks what he does is justified by greater good, and not so different from many of his officially virtuous enemies. Irvine's evocation of landscapes tortured into strangeness by aeons of magical intervention and cities wrecked by civil strife is crisply visualised; his set pieces of action--a fight with pirates, a trek through desert, a magical duel--are involving and viscerally exciting; his characters are complex individuals who grow and change--the semi-villainous Magraith has become almost a secondary heroine. --Roz Kaveney

From the Publisher:

DARK IS THE MOON is the third book of a major new epic fantasy series, The View From the Mirror.

Praise for Ian Irvine

'The complex cultures, detailed geography, and the palpable weight of history provide a solid background to an intense story that ... becomes increasingly compelling. This stands out as a worldbuilding labour of love with some truly original touches' LOCUS

By Ian Irvine

The View from the Mirror

Volume One A SHADOW ON THE GLASS

Volume Two THE TOWER ON THE RIFT

Volume Three DARK IS THE MOON

Volume Four THE WAY BETWEEN THE WORLDS

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1841490385
• ISBN 13: 9781841490380
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704