false 5037673 3 The Adamantine Palace lies at the centre of an empire that grew out of ashes. Once dragons ruled the world and man was little more than prey. Then a way of subduing the dragons alchemicly was discovered and now the dragons are bred to be little more than mounts for knights and highly valued tokens in the diplomatic power-players that underpin the rule of the competing aristocratic houses. The Empire has grown fat. And now one man wants it for himself. A man prepared to poison the king just as he has poisoned his own father. A man prepared to murder his lover and bed her daughter. A man fit to be king? But uknown to him there are flames on the way. A single dragon has gone missing. And even one dragon on the loose, unsubdued, returned to its full intelligence, its full fury, could spell disaster for the Empire. But because of the actions of one unscrupulous mercenary the rivals for the throne could soon be facing hundreds of dragons. 5104266 19 3 2009 The Adamantine Palace total:15|5:4|4:4|3:4|2:3|1:0| 15 54 95 7 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 15 14:59:26 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 15:08:12 -0800 2009 Published by Gollancz, March 2009 (ARC copy received)
350 pages
ISBN: 9780575083738

Ah, Dragons! Otherworldly, yet surprisingly comforting.

So here we have a new book from a new writer that is pretty much about a medieval-sty...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 07:39:38 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:56:09 -0700 2009 Fantasy readers can be a bit, well, snooty about how they take their dragons (fans are rarely ambivalent about the works of George R. R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, and Naomi Novik, for instance), and Stephen Deas takes a chance by making those most misunderstood of fantasy elements the focus of his deb...

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