About this ebook
Over a millennium ago, Erna, a seismically active yet beautiful world was settled by colonists from far-distant Earth. But the seemingly habitable planet was fraught with perils no one could have foretold. The colonists found themselves caught in a desperate battle for survival against the fae, a terrifying natural force with the power to prey upon the human mind itself, drawing forth a person's worst nightmare images or most treasured dreams and indiscriminately giving them life.
Twelve centuries after fate first stranded the colonists on Erna, mankind has achieved an uneasy stalemate, and human sorcerers manipulate the fae for their own profit, little realizing that demonic forces which feed upon such efforts are rapidly gaining in strength.
Now, as the hordes of the dark fae multiply, four people—Priest, Adept, Apprentice, and Sorcerer—are about to be drawn inexorably together for a mission which will force them to confront an evil beyond their imagining, in a conflict which will put not only their own lives but the very fate of humankind in jeopardy.
Twelve centuries after fate first stranded the colonists on Erna, mankind has achieved an uneasy stalemate, and human sorcerers manipulate the fae for their own profit, little realizing that demonic forces which feed upon such efforts are rapidly gaining in strength.
Now, as the hordes of the dark fae multiply, four people—Priest, Adept, Apprentice, and Sorcerer—are about to be drawn inexorably together for a mission which will force them to confront an evil beyond their imagining, in a conflict which will put not only their own lives but the very fate of humankind in jeopardy.
Ratings and reviews
4.7
101 reviews
David Waddington
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January 2, 2017
There are some interesting worldbuilding ideas in this book, but they are vastly outweighed by the terrible, terrible characters and predictable plot. The author does not establish the characters properly, and they are all unduly cliched in any event (my expectations are low in this regard for fantasy, but there is a level of cliche at which my suspension of disbelief starts to give out). When you are hoping that the main characters will die, you know that you are in trouble as a reader.
Nicholas Maher
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April 27, 2017
A very good read. I LOVED the Hunter. I love how obviously inspired the author was by vampire novels when writing his character, but not the watered down vampires of current popularity, but Bram Stoker's style shape shifting king of the night style vampire. Awesome.
David Bruce
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November 17, 2019
Same ol voice on, What?, Everything? Please, good God ! Give some creativity to, I don't know, something? I'm sure this will NEVER happen. Good GOD people. Get off your asses and improve something.
About the author
An acknowledged master of Dark Fantasy, Celia Friedman is a John W. Campbell award finalist, and the author of the highly acclaimed Coldfire Trilogy, New York Times Notable Book of the Year This Alien Shore, In Conquest Born, The Madness Season, The Wilding, and The Magister Trilogy. Ms. Friedman worked for twenty years as a professional costume designer, but retired from that career in 1996 to focus on her writing. She lives in Virginia, and can be contacted via her website, www.csfriedman.com.
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