Scar Night
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (701 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553384163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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But soon a shocking betrayal will unite all three in a desperate quest.The last of his line, Dill is descended from legendary Battle-archons who once defended the city. Once they descend however, they learn that what lies below is far more sinister than what they’ve been taught to expect.. Forbidden to fly and untrained even to wield the great sword inherited from his forebears, he has become a figurehead for a dying tradition. They must journey down into the uncharted chasm to save their sprawling metropolis—and themselves—from annihilation. Suspended by chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss, the ancient city of Deepgate is home to a young angel, an assassin, and a psychotic murderer hungry for revenge—or redemption. Now he lives a sheltered existence in one of Deepgate’s crumbling temple spires under the watchful eye of the Presbyter who rules the city.Spine assassin Rachel Hael has better things to do than oversee the Presbyter’s angel. Each dark moon she must fight for her life among the city chains, hunting an immortal predator with a ta
(Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . All rights reserved. The author, who was a video game designer, renders Deepgate beautifully. Campbell has Neil Gaiman's gift for lushly dark stories and compelling antiheroes, and effortlessly channels the Victorian atmospherics of writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake as well. It's a complex city of creaking metal links, stone and shadow, inhabited by priests, assassins and the boy-angel Dill, who will lead a journey into the abyss in a desperate attempt to save the city. This imaginative first novel will have plenty of readers anxiously awaiting his follow-up. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Campbell sets his stunning debut fantasy in Deepgate, a town wreathed in chains that keep it hanging suspended over a bottomless abyss, peopled by worshippers of Lord Ulcis, the god of chains, and tormented by a mad angel named Carnival
Bookreporter said A startling and mysterious story. Oftentimes when the term "fantasy" is bandied about, people conjure up immediate Tolkien-esque images: wizards, Elvish warriors, Rings of Power, trolls, and other elements of the genre that have become very typical. It is because that imagery is so commonplace that when someone comes a. Read it Twice! Lea Taylor A Dark and Goth Story that kept me on the edge of my seat This Sci-Fi Fantasy made me look for more of Alan Campbell's work in the bookstore In fact I ordered this hard cover, because I'd already read the novel in paperback and wanted a more permanent copy.. A new concept that worked Jessica L. I picked this book up because it had a concept I've never seen before, and the author made it work very, very well. The idea of a city, suspended over a seemingly bottomless abyss full of ghosts, twisting and groaning on its rusty chains and fraying ropes that do not always hold being