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Chargement... The End Of Magic: When magic is no more, which side will you choose? (2019)par Mark Stay
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. this is the story of Rosheen Katell and Sander Bree who start the story as magicians and then there's a catastrophy where the magical moon that provides the power for magic and magical creatures is destroyed by an impact from space. Into the mix comes a warlord, determined to exploit this and also with a strong sense of how to exploit people. When the moon is destroyed, those people known as Moon-children suddenly become powerful. It's a complex world with characters who have different motivations (mostly survival) and to whom this is not a game. A story with a lot of messy events happening and a lot of setting up for the next part of the story. I would read more in the series but I'm not really invested in hunting it up. The End of Magic tells the story of two mages, Rosheen Katell and Sander Bree, whose magic is derived from the Lapis Moon. When the moon is destroyed, and with it the source of their magic, they have to rely on their luck and nous to try and thwart evil warlord Haldor Frang, avoid the vengeful crowds who resented the mages' previous power and are all too happy to kill any newly-weak mages they find, and rescue Rosheen's brother Oskar (a so-called moon-child whose world is also turned upside down, though in a very different way, by the destruction of the Lapis Moon). I've seen the author describe this story as 'like Game of Thrones without the boobs', which I thought was a great description. Yes there are battles (and death, and gore), yes there's swearing (not excessively though), and yes there are no boobs, not even the hint of romance. And this literary wimp could cope with all of that. I particularly liked how all the characters were very flawed, there was no obvious 'goody' to counteract the very obvious 'baddie'. It kept me engaged and had me guessing right till the end, and was an absolutely cracking story. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Dear Reader Letter -- Super Patrons -- Maps -- The Witch Who Thinks She's a Warlock -- The Moon Child -- Casual Racism in a Small Village Tavern -- Haldor Frang's Prophecy -- Crosses on an Arc -- How to Wind Up Trolls -- Ship Song -- The Mighty Citadel of Taranis and Its Many Aromas -- A Learned Debate on the Niceties of the Mages' Code on the World-Famous Mage's Moons of Taranis -- The Blame Game -- The Dogmeat General -- The Day the Moon Died -- Anzu -- A Village Hanging -- The Power of the Stone -- Shave and a Haircut -- An Ordinary Man -- The Queen Mathilde's Rats -- Border Crossing -- Oskar Sweats -- The Mountain and the Dwarf -- Oskar's Questions -- Daffin -- Oskar's Final Fight -- Bodies in the Water -- Blood Oranges -- The Girl with the Bright Green Eyes -- Wolves with Swords -- The Hearts of Hunters and Prey -- Killing Sander Bree -- New Orders -- A Nun, a Mercenary and a General Meet in an Abbey and Gang Up on a Mage -- How Do You Lie to a Truth-Seer? -- King Bhaltair's Flying Corps Volunteers -- The Unusual Battle of the Alar River -- Smudging the Firmament -- Effie of the Jeltse Merclan -- Fuck You, Haldor Frang -- A Week Is a Long Time in Politics -- The God of the Mountain -- Epilogue: Passage to Eru -- Acknowledgements -- Patrons
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Ondertussen begint er een oorlog tussen het rebellenleger van Haldor Frang en de koning van Bhaltair van Ultan.
Goed geschreven en intrigerend van het begin tot het einde. Ik vind het achteraf jammer dat ik het boek even aan de kant heb geschoven om andere boeken voor te laten gaan. Want dit is het absoluut waard om in een ruk uit te lezen. ( )