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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN num: 9780316067706
ISBN number: 0316067709
Label: Orbit
Manufacturer: Orbit
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Page Count: 544
Printing Date: June 03, 2008
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The world has fallen from its former state. The war between the clans of the Black Road and the True Bloods has spread.
For Orisian, thane of the ruined Lannis Blood, there is no time to grieve the loss of his family, brutally slain by the invading armies. The Black Road must be stopped. However, as more blood is spilled on the battlefields, so each side in the conflict becomes more riven by internal dissent and disunity.
Amidst the mounting chaos, Aeglyss the na'kyrim uses his new-found powers to twist everything and everyone around him to serve his own mad desires.
Meanwhile, the long-dormant Anain are stirring - and when the most potent race the world has ever known returns, the bloodletting may never stop.
BLOODHEIR is the stunning sequel to Winterbirth, one of the most acclaimed epic fantasy debuts of recent years.
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An excellent book in the fantasy genre. Good fleshed out characters and a lot of great written "grey areas" to enjoy. The final part of this series will be fun to read.
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Brian Ruckley has done an even better job with book two of his Godless World series. The writing is more concise and full of tension and all of his characters have individual depths. Some yet to be explored to the fullest. As someone who reads few fantasy novels, I was very taken with the simplicity of style as it allows the story, and the character's lives, to breath and grow on you. Not too much magic or special powers, just enough to make it feel real and keep my interest. With every page turn, I await the subsequent chapter of each characters story.
Well done!
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I strongly recommend this book to anyone who likes dark, action intense fantasy. I would say this wasn't as good as the very first book and some of the parts seemed to trail on and on, but overall this was a great book that ended well leading up to the third one which I hope comes out soon.
There is more infighting in this one among the different factions and the boy Thane Orisian is off doing his own thing while the rest of the Godless World gets smashed into oblivion.
Aglyss becomes the main protragonist and uses his powers to further weaken his enemies and allies alike, bending them to his will.
Taim is my favorite characters in the second installment. He is the good guy in this story who you really want to root for and see come out on top more than any of the others. I hope in the end of the series he gets to see his wife and daughter, at least one more time.
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A very well-done 2nd book in this series by Brian Ruckley. I very much enjoy his painting of this grim, cold world. His descriptions of the action is well done (and there is a lot of it). I enjoyed this book more than the 1st, Winterbirth. I very much look forward to the 3rd book, but alas, it's not until May 2009. Readers, this is a well thought-out and described world to sink yourself into. Not much magic use, good characters, etc. You even find yourself rooting for the bad guys sometimes. Read it, and you'll see.
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Bloodheir is the 2nd Book in the Godless World trilogy by newcomer Brian Ruckley. Although not as good as the 1st book,(rarely are 2nd volumes as good as the 1st in just about any trilogy), it is still a well written novel.
Some major players get killed off in this one, and some major chessboard-like moves are huge, thus making this a seemingly intregal part to the oncoming last volume in this trilogy. Where most middle books are fillers, not so Bloodheir!
Ruckley's prose is dynamic in many ways, lending his work a feel of someone having been a giant in the fantasy field for years. He is a consumate wordsmith. For writing about such a desolate, dark world, full of blood and treachery and foul, bleak weather, Ruckley's writing comes off very poetish and lyrical, almost beautifully surreal for such a dark genre.
Brian Ruckley's characters here continue to grow, not stagnate like alot of writers have a tendency to do. In just two large volumes, Brian Ruckley has breathed new life in the fantasy genre, even though there is little to no magic, and no mythical beasts, demons, elves, nor ogres or the like that most fantasy is built upon. Without these elements, which at times I wished it had, it still shows what talent Ruckley has to enable the reader to still get a feeling of getting a fantastic fantasy read with just more of a historical feel than a demon-dwarves-elfs-filled typical fantasy novel.
Instead of elfs, Ruckley has his own colorful and cool invention called - Woodwights called kyrinin, and their half-breeds called Na'kyrim, which are unhuman albino Native American-like warriors who are awesome hunters and tracker warriors. Very interesting tribes these, along with their half-human-half-Kyrinin counterparts, Na'kyrim. The humans are called Huanin, true-bloods that are battling each other in clans that range from Thanes, (instead of Kings), of different clans led by their family-held heritages, all battling an ancient human foe from a distant land that are their war-like brethren called the Black Road. The Black Road too have different clans, all uniting to overthrow all the true-blood Thanes and conquer their lands. Women warriors abound throughout, making them as big and bold as their male counterparts.
In this bold new novel, the halfbreed human-kyrinin named Aeglyss is growing in his newfound powers of a lost age, enabling him to twist the minds of humans to his will, as well as creating a mixed bag of warriors to his call, building a vast army to overthrow both human Thanes and Kyrinin held lands, twisting everything and everyone around him to serve his mad desires.
Rich in both world-building and characterization, Brian Ruckley writes a great second installment, (albeit sometimes a bit too long at times), that left us looking forward to the 3rd and last installment - Fall of Thanes - coming out soon.
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