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Loading... Icefalcon's Quest (Darwath) (edition 1998)by Barbara Hambly
Work InformationIcefalcon's Quest by Barbara Hambly
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  eleanorg | Feb 15, 2023 |   The usual well-written story by Hambly, this concludes the main Darwath series, although there are 3 self-published novellas available from the usual sources (unfortunately expensive for 50+ pages). I enjoyed the story, although I thought it the weakest of the sequels to the original trilogy. The trouble with revisiting earlier worlds is the law of dimishing returns - once you’ve defeated the big bad, the only thing left is to defeat a bigger bad - which is what Mother of Winter involved. Here, the focus was on search and rescue - and although there was a big bad to defeat, it was human in scale and not world-spanning. Recommended. Maddz | Oct 22, 2017 | Style: Omniscient narrator, but localized often to the POV of the Icefalcon, in order to explicate his personal quest. Goes as a pair with "Mother of Winter", which are a follow-on to the Darwath Trilogy. Not a bad read, but I have to start letting some books go. (  ) librisissimo | Nov 28, 2014 | Hambly is an excellent fantasy writer, and for that alone this is worth reading, though this is good, but not exceptional. There's certainly much worse out there. ( ) Karlstar | Apr 18, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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While chaos reigned in the Eastern Lands, the Keep of Dare stood as a bastion against war and bandits and the spawn of unnatural sorceries. Then twin blows rocked the citadel: the fearsome Alketch army mounted siege, even as young Prince Tir was snatched from the heart of the Keep. Behind the terror was the depraved, hook-handed general Vair na-Chandros. He had learned that the royal child possessed forbidden wisdom: a secret with which the bloodthirsty Vair intended to conquer the world. One single man posed a threat to Vair's vaunting ambition: the legendary warrior known as the Icefalcon. Banished by his own people and scorned as a barbarian by others, only he could hope to free the boy from Vair's clutches. With his sister Cold Death--a sorcerer whose magic was as sharp as her tongue--the Icefalcon embarked on a dangerous mission of rescue and redemption. Braving nightmare demons and the endless hordes of Vair's inhuman soldiers, he shadowed Vair and his small captive beyond the reaches of the known world. And when the boy led Vair to the forgotten Keep of the Shadow at the End of Time, the Icefalcon would face his greatest battle . . . for his prince, for his honor, and for all eternity. No library descriptions found. |
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The descriptions of people in the duplication box is utterly horrific. It was well done though and I think necessary. It would be too easy to side step the awfulness since the victim ‘survives’. It was still terribly vivid.
I read this when a song with lyrics about “In the real world” was on a lot. It was a little surreal :) (