Talkswithwind's review
Godslayer (The Sundering, Book 2)
by Jacqueline Carey
Talkswithwind's review
Godslayer (The Sundering, Book 2) by Jacqueline Carey
Talkswithwind's review
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fantasy
This is a review for the series. The other book is Banewreaker.
If you hear "Jacqueline Carey" and think Kushiel's Dart, you may be mighty tempted to pick up this series based on that.
Don't.
There are no subby women with bottomless capacities for pain in this series. Heck, it isn't even D'angeline. Very little sex, in fact, and none of it kinky. Different universe completely.
This is rather nakedly The Lord of the Rings but done from the point of view of the Nazgul. At least, that's the concept I think that fired Carey. There is a White Wizard that shows up after being left for dead underground. There are two people from a barely known tribe who have a terrible burden to carry into the very fortified heart of darkness. There are Elves, Dwarves, and Men. And Trolls, though they don't turn to stone in sunlight. For part of it there is an actual Fellows...more
If you hear "Jacqueline Carey" and think Kushiel's Dart, you may be mighty tempted to pick up this series based on that.
Don't.
There are no subby women with bottomless capacities for pain in this series. Heck, it isn't even D'angeline. Very little sex, in fact, and none of it kinky. Different universe completely.
This is rather nakedly The Lord of the Rings but done from the point of view of the Nazgul. At least, that's the concept I think that fired Carey. There is a White Wizard that shows up after being left for dead underground. There are two people from a barely known tribe who have a terrible burden to carry into the very fortified heart of darkness. There are Elves, Dwarves, and Men. And Trolls, though they don't turn to stone in sunlight. For part of it there is an actual Fellows...more
