"Dave Duncan - Tales of King's Blades 2 - Lord of The Firelands" - читать интересную книгу автора (Duncan Dave)

Once bound, a Blade's life is no
longer his own. Only death can break the gilded
chain of enchantment that binds the bodyguard to the man
he is sworn to defend. And never in living
memory has a candidate refused the honor of
serving his king ... until now.
Young Wasp never intended to be a rebel.
Yet, at the sacred ceremony of binding, he
follows the lead of his friend Raider, and together they
spurn the wishes of King Ambrose himself. Now
Raider and Wasp are outlaws hunted by the very
Blades whose ranks they were a breath away from
entering, and joined together by a destiny that binds them more
securely than any knot tradition and sorcery
might tie. Amid the turmoil their "treachery"
has inspired, Wasp and Raider must undertake a
desperate journey into the heart of the dreaded
Fire Lands. And the outcome of their terrifying
confrontation with dark truth and darker magic in this
realm of monsters, ghosts, and half-men will
ultimately determine the fate of two
kingdoms.

"Exceptional. ... Duncan can
swashbuckle with the best, but his characters feel more
deeply and think more cleverly than most, making his
novels, especially this one, suitable
for a particularly wide readership."
Publishers Weekly (starred
Review)

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Praise for
DAVE DUNCAN
and the
TALES OF
THE KING'S BLADES

"Just the sort of marvelous yarn that lured me
into reading fantasy."
Anne McCaffrey

"A fantasist of most sophisticated
subtlety."
Locus