Dusk (Mass Market Paperback)

If you like books like this one, might I suggest another I've recently come across. The Unsuspecting Mage by Brian S. Pratt. It's another fantasy adventure sure to please. I highly recommend it

Noreela is not like any place I have read about before. It's a world undone by a war long over, haunted by the decimation of magic, terrified of the Red Monks who exsit only to keep magic from returning and more terrified still by the Mages determined to bring it back. Noreela is a world hanging in the balance; stagnant and futile, waiting for it knows not what to bring about change, any change.

When a lone Red Monk annihilates a whole town to destroy a single young boy with the potential of magic, it's clear that some sort of change has begun. If Rafe had died the change would have been different. But Rafe lived, and it is his journey we take in the pages of DUSK.

While the Mages prepare to reclaim Noreela and bring magic back, Rafe's fate pulls together an unlikely band of companions. Hope is a witch, with an inkling of what Rafe is and an unquenchable drive to keep him safe until she can have what he holds; Kosar, a thief; Alishia, a librarian with history unravelling in her mind. A'Meer is a warrior with skills almost forgotten and Trey is a drug addict who fled his home in terror of the mysterious Nax.

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. The Monks want to kill Rafe and the Mages only care about the seed of magic he holds. If it were only the Mages and the Monks they faced, they'd have been 'lucky' but Noreela is a treacherous land, and with unerring cruelty the desperate group encounters the worst it has to offer.

DUSK is a rich and addictive book, full of the some of the strangest creatures and most unusual magic ever brought together to tell a tale. The characters are complex and memorable, the landscape alien and fecund. The story is brutal and tender, full of danger and dedication. The writing is passionate and convincing and some of the best to date from Tim's gifted imagination.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.