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Lord of the Silent Kingdom (2007)

von Glen Cook

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Reihen: The Instrumentalities of the Night (2)

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It's cold. The wells of power are weakening and the forces of Night grow strong. The gods are real, and still have some power, mostly to do harm. The Instrumentalities of the Night are the worst of these. Piper Hecht, born Else Tage, survived a battle with the Instrumentalities. Now he's Captain-General of the armies fighting a crusade for Patriarch Sublime V. Intrigues swirl around the throne of the Grail Empire, as the imperial family's enemy Anne of Menand raises money to help the perpetually indebted Patriarch finance his crusades. To reduce his own vulnerability, sickly young Emperor Lothar assigns his two half-sisters--his immediate heirs--to their own realms. Now Piper Hecht learns that the legendary sorcerer Cloven Februaren, referred to as the Ninth Unknown, is still alive, more than 100 years old, and on Piper's side. As the dynastic politics of the Empire become even more convoluted, it's clear that while the old gods may be fading, they're determined to do everything they can to bend the doings of men to their own advantage. Sieges, explosions, betrayals, Anti-Patriarchs, and suspicious deaths will ensue as the great chess game plays itself out, with Piper Hecht at the center of it all... InLord of the Silent Kingdom, Glen Cook has created a complex and original sequel to The Tyranny of the Night, continuing this intriguing fantasy epic.… (mehr)
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I've read every book that Glen Cook has written, I think, but sadly, this series is one of his worst. It's based on European history, but as part of setting it in a fantasy world, he apparently thought that he had to re-name every location. As a result, I kept alternating between "who are the Connectens again, really?" and "just write Roman instead of Brothen already!" Not one of his best ideas. And the plot is meandering and full of inconclusive episodes that if he wasn't writing from history he probably would have edited out. Which is sort of a shame, since the central premise of the book (cannons kill gods and therefore disrupt the social order, just as cannons in reality did so by destroying castles) might have been more interesting. ( )
1 abstimmen rpuchalsky | Oct 7, 2022 |
This is the danger of reading ebooks: it is a much longer novel than I expected.

It reads a little like a second draft, before the author realized it should have been more than one book and reworked it as three (each of them almost as long as in its current form). It summarized a lot more of the action than I would have liked, and much more than I expected from the other Glen Cook books I have read. It's obvious that some of that was because of the fact that big, sweeping changes in the political landscape were occurring, but even events wherein key perspective characters got personally involved ended up with far more summarizing than I would have preferred.

Despite that, the character development, the evolving circumstances and relationships, and the story itself all kept me thoroughly absorbed so that I would find myself wishing I could just read the book instead of whatever else I was supposed to be doing (working, sleeping, eating, whatever). Cook has a definite talent for keeping me interested in what will happen next. ( )
  apotheon | Dec 14, 2020 |
Liked it quite a bit, but the writing style feels odd, as if in many places the descriptive bits of what's actually happening in any given scene have been removed, which makes it feel kind of unanchored. This would be fine if the scene's just a conversation between two people, but it's not, they're doing other stuff with other characters coming in. Distracting. ( )
  Jon_Hansen | Oct 12, 2020 |
See The Tyranny of the Night. ( )
  TadAD | May 19, 2008 |
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who snuck out the back
way early, before the
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It's cold. The wells of power are weakening and the forces of Night grow strong. The gods are real, and still have some power, mostly to do harm. The Instrumentalities of the Night are the worst of these. Piper Hecht, born Else Tage, survived a battle with the Instrumentalities. Now he's Captain-General of the armies fighting a crusade for Patriarch Sublime V. Intrigues swirl around the throne of the Grail Empire, as the imperial family's enemy Anne of Menand raises money to help the perpetually indebted Patriarch finance his crusades. To reduce his own vulnerability, sickly young Emperor Lothar assigns his two half-sisters--his immediate heirs--to their own realms. Now Piper Hecht learns that the legendary sorcerer Cloven Februaren, referred to as the Ninth Unknown, is still alive, more than 100 years old, and on Piper's side. As the dynastic politics of the Empire become even more convoluted, it's clear that while the old gods may be fading, they're determined to do everything they can to bend the doings of men to their own advantage. Sieges, explosions, betrayals, Anti-Patriarchs, and suspicious deaths will ensue as the great chess game plays itself out, with Piper Hecht at the center of it all... InLord of the Silent Kingdom, Glen Cook has created a complex and original sequel to The Tyranny of the Night, continuing this intriguing fantasy epic.

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