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"This magnificent and multifaceted work, set against a richly detailed quasi-Arabian background, confirms Downum's Necromancer Chronicles as a top-notch fantasy series." (Publishers Weekly )
Praise for The Necromancer Chronicles:
"Spectacular...[a] complex and bloody tale of sorcery, madness, and intrigue." --- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Downum's second fantasy is as sharp and complex as the first, full of fascinating characters." --- Booklist
"Well-written and entertaining." --- RT Book Reviews
Praise for The Necromancer Chronicles:
"Spectacular...[a] complex and bloody tale of sorcery, madness, and intrigue." --- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Downum's second fantasy is as sharp and complex as the first, full of fascinating characters." --- Booklist
"Well-written and entertaining." --- RT Book Reviews
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With her master dead and her oaths foresworn, necromancer and spy Isyllt Iskaldur finds herself in exile. Hounded by assassins, she seeks asylum in Assar, the empire she so recently worked to undermine.
Warlords threaten the empire's fragile peace, and the empress is beset by enemies within the court. Even worse, darkness stirs in the deep desert. Ancient spirits long held captive are waking - spirits that can destroy Assar faster than any army.
Accompanied by an outcast jinn, Isyllt must travel into the heart of the desert to lay the darkness there to rest once more. But her sympathies are torn between the captive spirits and the order of mages sworn to bind them. And whichever choice she makes could raze the empire to dust. (2012)
Warlords threaten the empire's fragile peace, and the empress is beset by enemies within the court. Even worse, darkness stirs in the deep desert. Ancient spirits long held captive are waking - spirits that can destroy Assar faster than any army.
Accompanied by an outcast jinn, Isyllt must travel into the heart of the desert to lay the darkness there to rest once more. But her sympathies are torn between the captive spirits and the order of mages sworn to bind them. And whichever choice she makes could raze the empire to dust. (2012)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Another good story, May 26 2012
By Gregory B. Wayman "I've been kindled!" - Published on Amazon.com
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Really continue to love the whole storyline about these charactors. I mean who would have thought a necromancer would be a good guy in the series!
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Very good, I hope there are more., Mar 27 2012
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This review is from: The Kingdoms of Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
I was iffy on her first Necromancer Chronicles volume (The Drowning City), but the second volume (BOne Balace) had me hooked. I love Downum's dark, emotionally vulnerable, tough-as-nails, tortured, and somewhat vengeful heroine, Isyllt Iskaldur.She strays away from many fantasy cliches like romanticized vampires, overwrought romances, and long, boring dialogues. What she delivers is instead intense, dark, sometimes morbidly funny, and moving. Isyllt is a character who is female but doesn't fall into the usual traps of female characters, either becoming an object for men to rescue or an overly-violent robot. Instead of being a "damsel in distress" or, alternately, the trite "strong woman" archetype, she's simply a human being with interesting abilities, and a social pariah with a haunted past.
Grammatically speaking, this is the best of all three; you can see her growing as a writer throughout the series. I thought that the plot wasn't as exciting as The Bone Palace, but she revisits and revitalizes old characters satisfyingly. She also fleshes out Isyllt even more; she's a fascinating character with a lot of depth and layers.
I didn't give it five stars because I was somewhat dissatisfied with the atmosphere of this book. The sweltering sun and sand is described a lot, and the action sequences take place in varied settings, but I didn't get a "feel for" the people of this place, which is what I relished in The Bone Palace. In that volume, smells and sights, settings, different races and social classes were all explored. In this, it felt a bit one note- but then again, it did take place in a desert.
Moth also isn't fleshed out as much, but it might be that the character is just exhausted. I was also disappointed that we didn't learn much more about Kiril or Isyllt's personal past, although both are alluded to. I am hoping this is a sign that another volume (or three!) is forthcoming, and I'm pretty excited. I didn't expect it to, but Necromancer Chronicles has really sucked me in.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great fantasy, Feb 28 2012
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Kingdoms of Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
The recent disastrous events evolved from her investigation into a dead whore wearing the ring of the deceased queen of Selafai to Isyllt Iskaldur's master dying and assassins stalking her. Not only has she lost her position as the necromancer Agent of the Crown, she is exiled from the royal city of Erisin (see The Bone Palace). She and her mercenary friend Adam travel across the Caelurean Sea receiving sanctuary at the court of the Assari.Dormant ancient spirits of entropy begin to awaken. If they break out of the imprisonment of dedicated mages, these spirits will destroy Assar and its neighbors. Isyllt and Asheris al Seth the jinn bound to a human body travel into the deadly burning desert in search of the lost ancient city of Qais. There they seek the vortex where the lethal ghost winds emanate from. If they find the city, they still have to figure out how to shut down the terrorizing ghost winds.
The latest Necromancer Chronicles fantasy series (see The Drowning City) is a great tale as Amanda Downum once again combines morality on an individual scale against the ethics of the greater good. Isyllt is the focus of the dilemma as she wonders whose needs belong on top of the food chain at the cost to others. She feels for her partner who fumes against his binding but she needs him to save humanity; she empathizes with the bound spirits trying to break out but also knows if freed they will destroy their mage guards (who she admires for their self-sacrificing vigil) and humanity. Filled with plenty of fast-paced action, The Kingdoms of Dust is fantasy at its most exciting morally thought provoking best.
Harriet Klausner
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