Saint's Blood: The Greatcoats Book 3 That Will Leave You Stunned!: The Greatcoats
Autor Sebastien de Castellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 apr 2017
Suntem de părere că Saint's Blood este un exemplu remarcabil de fantasy de tip „swashbuckling”, care respectă convențiile duelurilor de spadă și ale onorii cavalerești, dar subversează genul prin introducerea unei brutalități politice și religioase neașteptate. În acest al treilea volum al seriei The Greatcoats, autorul Sebastien de Castell ridică miza de la simple intrigi nobiliare la o criză teologică profundă. Premisa este pe cât de crudă, pe atât de fascinantă: cineva a găsit o metodă de a ucide Sfinții, folosind o mască de fier care le induce nebunia, lăsând regatul în pragul unei teocrații conduse de Inchiziție. Credem că forța acestui roman rezidă în echilibrul dintre umorul spumos al celor trei protagoniști — Falcio, Kest și Brasti — și întunericul tot mai dens al lumii în care aceștia luptă. Lumea construită de autor capătă noi dimensiuni, unde sfințenia nu este doar un concept abstract, ci o stare fizică ce poate fi coruptă și distrusă prin tehnici de tortură psihologică. Putem afirma că stilul narativ este unul alert, marcat de scene de luptă coregrafiate cu o precizie chirurgicală, specifice unui autor care înțelege arta duelului. Saint's Blood amintește de Knight's Shadow prin ritmul intens și dinamica de tip „mușchetari”, dar se diferențiază prin accentul pus pe fanatismul religios și pe modul în care instituțiile sacre pot deveni instrumente de opresiune. Față de lucrările sale din seria Spellslinger, precum Queenslayer sau Crownbreaker, unde accentul cădea pe viclenie și supraviețuire individuală, aici Sebastien de Castell explorează responsabilitatea colectivă a unei caste de justițiari căzuți în dizgrație, care trebuie să salveze o țară ce pare să nu-i mai vrea.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1782066810
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția Arcadia
Seria The Greatcoats
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
TO READ THEM IS TO LOVE THEM --The Oklahoman
DE CASTELL HAS MANAGED YET AGAIN TO TOP HIS PREVIOUS BOOK BY CREATING WHAT WILL SURELY BE ONE OF THE BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE YEAR. --Tattooed Book Geek
The Greatcoats are back--and this time it's personal.
How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Kest, and Brasti are about to find out, because someone has figured out a way to do it and they've started with a friend.
The Dukes were already looking for ways out of their agreement to put Aline on the throne, but with the Saints turning up dead, rumors are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension.
Now churches are looking to protect themselves by bringing back the military orders of religious soldiers, assassins, and (especially) Inquisitors - a move that could turn the country into a theocracy.
The only way Falcio can put a stop to it is by finding the murderer. He has only one clue: a terrifying iron mask which makes the Saints vulnerable by driving them mad. But even if he can find the killer, he'll still have to face him in battle.
And that may be a duel that no swordsman, no matter how skilled, can hope to win.
Recenzii
This is a one in a million series. Each book is fantastic yet manages to be better than the last and with Saint's Blood Castell takes the characters and readers into some hugely unexpected and exciting places with the consummate precision and skill of a master dueller
Sebastien de Castell exhibits his finest form yet in Saint's Blood . . . If you enjoy fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat adventure and compelling, believable characters battling overwhelming odds yet never giving in, you can't beat the Greatcoats series. To read them is to love them
It's like The Three Musketeers with magic. On steroids. But for all of the wild adventuring, peril and spectacle, there is a real heart emerging from beneath it all
Sebastien de Castell keeps delivering amazing books, displaying his talent for weaving a web of humour, tension, ingenious plots and fantastic characters . . . An exhilarating journey that took me at breakneck speed through a whole array of emotions
Wildly entertaining and thoroughly intense, Saint's Blood is the kind of book that makes you wish all epic heroic fantasy can be this awesome
Huge amounts of adventurous fun, witty and incisive dialogue, a set of characters to die for and layer upon layer of fantastic world building - with laugh out loud moments interspersed with dark and dastardly doings. Plus swordfights. What more could you ask
From the first line we remember how funny the writing is in this series as we are immersed back into the world of the Greatcoats, their bone-plated attire and their dueling swords. . . De Castell retains that wonderful, witty delivery that made the first two books in the series such a success'
A perfect and fresh addition to the Epic Fantasy genre, I loved every bit of it . . . The bottom-line is: Read Saint's Blood
Don't hesitate to buy this if you love a great hero and story . . . What a voice! What story-telling brio! If you love Dumas, or Game of Thrones or The False Prince this is the swashbuckling fantasy for you.
One hell of a good book
High energy, highly unique, swashbuckling-cop-epic-noir story. Buy it. BUY IT NOW.
Highly entertaining . . . I loved everything about this book
One of my all time favourite fantasy series . . . simply stunning'
The character growth is stunning, the advancement of themes indescribable, and the escalation of tension to unimaginable heights breathtaking. I have no idea how de Castell can possibly top this, but you can be assured I'll be there to watch him try
Swept me along and I did not want to put it down
Sebastien de Castell keeps delivering amazing books, displaying his talent for weaving a web of humour, tension, ingenious plots and fantastic characters
The Greatcoats series is definitely one of my favorite Fantasy reads, and Saint's Blood was an amazing installment. Exciting, fast-paced, and full of major twists - the finale to this series is absolutely my most anticipated book now!
There's so much about this book to love . . . If you like swashbuckling fantasy, this is the story for you
The writing is clever and exquisite, each character voice unique and vibrant, and the relationships between the core characters is absolutely brilliant
This book, and series, is so close to perfection in my eyes . . . This book broke me. This book killed me. This book, then, resurrected me and gave me life. Then, I read the bonus content and this book ripped my f****** heart out, and now is going to make me wait a year to maybe get it back