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Chargement... In the Region of the Summer Starspar Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. A delightful mixture of Irish myth and legend involving a young man, Conon, wrongly exiled for theft. Along with a druid he and two stalwart friend from his tribe investigate whether a tribal king, Brecan of the Brigantes, has ambitions of becoming the High King. But Conor, after infiltrating his stronghold. finds out there is more to Brecan's ambition than that. Conon and his friends also fight the villains, the Scalda, members of a people similar to Vikings or Saxons. When two of the three are badly injured they are taken by faeries [both male and female] to the faeries' homeland, the "Region of the Summer Stars", different Otherworld locations of Irish myth: e.g., Tir na nOg; Avalon, to be healed. I've read others of the author's Celtic fantasy and have enjoyed all the novels I read, although fantasy per se is not my favorite genre. [Dragons and other fantastic creatures leave me cold.] His writing reminds me very much of another author I like very much, Guy Gavriel Kay, in that his worlds are thinly disguised real places: Eirlandia=Ireland, in this case. The faeries were all 2-dimensional and the Scalda completely evil. Conor and his friends were intrepid and loyal to each other, which I admired. This is the first volume of a new series; I want to follow their further adventures. My copy had a "teaser" of an excerpt from the next volume. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieEirlandia (1)
Ravaged by barbarian Scálda forces, the last hope for Eirlandia lies with the island's warring tribes. Wrongly cast out of his tribe, Conor, the first-born son of the Celtic king, embarks on a dangerous mission to prove his innocence. What he discovers will change Eirlandia forever. For the Scálda have captured the mystical Fae to use as an ultimate weapon. And Conor's own people have joined in the inv Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The worldbuilding is fantastic; it was easy for me to envision this ancient Celtic world and peoples. The story is rift with Celtic myths and legends and I became immersed very easily. A great start to a new series. ( )