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Zusatztext Vivid characters! visceral combat and a twist of an ending that I really should have seen coming and didn't (wizards are bastards and here's the proof). Brilliant use of magic as technology! too! like lightbulbs and water heaters. Excellent gender representation . . . Suffice to say! I bloody loved it and I am officially an Ed McDonald fan. He deserves to go far. Informationen zum Autor Ed McDonald has spent many years moving between different professions! cities and countries! but the only thing any of them share in common is that they have allowed him enough free time to write. He currently lives in London! a city that provides him with constant inspiration. When he's not wrangling with misbehaving plot lines he can usually be found fencing with longswords! rapiers and pollaxes. Klappentext You think you know Misery? You've not seen anything yet . . . You think you know Misery? You've not seen anything yet . . . Zusammenfassung The republic faces annihilation! despite the vigilance of Galharrow's Blackwings. When a raven tattoo rips itself from his arm to deliver a desperate message! Galharrow and a mysterious noblewoman must investigate a long dead sorcerer's legacy. But there is a conspiracy within the citadel: traitors! flesh-eaters and the ghosts of the wastelands seek to destroy them! but if they cannot solve the ancient wizard's paradox! the Deep Kings will walk the earth again! and all will be lost. The war with the Eastern Empire ended in stalemate some eighty years ago! thanks to Nall's 'Engine'! a wizard-crafted weapon so powerful even the Deep Kings feared it. The strike of the Engine created the Misery - a wasteland full of ghosts and corrupted magic that now forms a No Mans Land along the frontier. But when Galharrow investigates a frontier fortress! he discovers complacency bordering on treason: then the walls are stormed! and the Engine fails to launch. Galharrow only escapes because of the preternatural magical power of the noblewoman he was supposed to be protecting. Together! they race to the capital to unmask the traitors and restore the republic's defences. Far across the Misery a vast army is on the move! as the Empire prepares to call the republic's bluff. Blackwing is a gritty epic fantasy for fans of Mark Lawrence! Scott Lynch and Daniel Polansky. ...
