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PRAISE FOR BRIAN STAVELEY
‘Following in the footsteps of George R. R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie and the like’
KIRKUS, starred review
‘With assured skill, Staveley takes this initial stage of his tale to a climax where the amount of double-dealing and quick change dazzles’
LOCUS
‘A thrilling fantasy adventure that blends together politics, action and magic . . . I was reminded of the sense of history displayed in J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin’s fantasy epics’
io9
‘A truly epic tale full of memorable characters, clever politics, an intelligent magic system, brutal battle scenes, and witty dialogue’
FANTASY FACTION
‘Staveley creates a world of treachery and deceit that will hold your attention to the last page’
RT BOOK REVIEWS
‘Superbly written, sublimely enchanting, utterly engrossing’
THEBOOKGEEK
Info autore
After more than a decade teaching history, religion, and philosophy, Brian decided to write epic fantasy. He now lives on a steep dirt road in the hills of southern Vermont, where he divides his time between fathering, writing, husbanding, splitting wood, skiing, and adventuring - not necessarily in that order. He is the author of the epic The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne, which begins with The Emperor's Blades.
Riassunto
For one apprentice assassin, the clock is ticking . . .
Pyrre Lakatur doesn’t like the description skullsworn. It doesn’t capture the beauty of her devotion to Ananshael, God of Death. And she’s not an assassin, but a priestess. Or she will be, if she can pass her final trial. The problem isn’t killing, as Pyrre has spent her life training for this. The problem is love. To pass the trial, she will have fourteen days to kill seven people detailed in an ancient song, including one true love, ‘who will not come again’. However, Pyrre has never been in love, time is short, and if she fails she’ll be given to her god.
Pyrre’s not afraid to die, but she hates to fail. So a month before the trial begins, she returns to the violent city of her birth, where she once offered an abusive father to the god. Here Pyrre hopes to find love – and end it with the edge of her knife.
Prefazione
A gripping standalone novel set in the world of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne trilogy.
Testo aggiuntivo
A thrilling fantasy adventure that blends together politics, action and magic . . . Each of this disparate storylines contribute to a much greater whole, and the end result is a wonderfully machined novel that simultaneously plays out a more immediate storyline and its place in a much larger story
