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A Path to Coldness of Heart
- Dread Empire, Book 8
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Series: Dread Empire, Book 8
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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For years, Glen Cook's Black Company series has built a major audience among fantasy fans. Told from the "worm's-eye" view of the soldiers and functionaries who fight in the trenches of vast sorceress wars, this epic has riveted a generation of readers. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Concluding the first major arc
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5 out of 5 stars
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great
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not as bad as the other review.
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A young boy's dreams of glory and war turn into a bitter nightmare as his father's kingdom is overrun by an invading army. Lost and alone in the woods, he finds an ancient sword that promises him the ability to claim his vengeance. As he begins to take that vengeance, he comes to realize the price that the sword will demand of him. Enemies soon become allies and strange bedfellows abound as the prophesies of an age swirl into chaos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glen Cook novel pays homage to early Elric stories
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Publisher's Summary
At long last, the conclusion to Glen Cook's Dread Empire saga has arrived! King Bragi Ragnarson is a prisoner, shamed, nameless, and held captive by Lord Shih-kaa and the Empress Mist at the heart of the Dread Empire. Far away in Kavelin, Bragia's queen and what remains of his army seek to find and free their king, hampered by the loss or desertion of their best and brightest warriors. Kavelina's spymaster, Michael Trebilcock, is missing in action, as is loyal soldier Aral Dantice.
Meanwhile, Dane, Duke of Greyfells, seeks to seize the rule of Kavelin and place the kingdom in his pocket, beginning a new line of succession through Bragia's queen, Dane's cousin Inger. And in the highest peaks of the Dragona's Teeth, in the ancient castle Fangdred, the sorcerer called Varthlokkur uses his arts to spy on the world at large, observing the puppet strings that control kings and empires alike, waiting....
For the time of the wrath of kings is almost at hand, and vengeance lies along a path to coldness of heart.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- christopher
- 03-10-18
Anticlimactic 😣
This series has come to a disappointing end. And that fact really make me sad.