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Deathlands #104
Palaces of Light
Remnants of America’s past are littered across the postapocalyptic landscape, but little remains of the predark ideals of law and order. Survival is a blood quest, and lethal force the means to power. Still, a handful retains their humanity among the coldhearts, and in a world where nothing lasts forever, hope is a commodity as precious as jack.
Steeped in beauty and mysticism, the canyons of Mesa Verde, Colorado, survived the blast that altered the American West. Hired to track a group of missing children, Ryan Cawdor and his band follow the trail to a legendary city carved in stone, older and stronger than the nukecaust. The inhabitants of the palaces of light are more than warriors and survivors; they are masters of mind games that prey on illusion. And true believers in a metaphysical endgame poised to push the companions over the edge of reality…into certain death.
Steeped in beauty and mysticism, the canyons of Mesa Verde, Colorado, survived the blast that altered the American West. Hired to track a group of missing children, Ryan Cawdor and his band follow the trail to a legendary city carved in stone, older and stronger than the nukecaust. The inhabitants of the palaces of light are more than warriors and survivors; they are masters of mind games that prey on illusion. And true believers in a metaphysical endgame poised to push the companions over the edge of reality…into certain death.
318 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
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July 29, 2025
Possibly the worst book in this very long series. It's so uninteresting that it's not even worth critiquing. But finishing this book is a cause for celebration;
NO MORE DEATHLANDS PENNED BY ANDY BOOT!
Boot is by far the worst author under the house name James Axler and I'm ecstatic knowing I don't have to read any more of his crap.
NO MORE DEATHLANDS PENNED BY ANDY BOOT!
Boot is by far the worst author under the house name James Axler and I'm ecstatic knowing I don't have to read any more of his crap.
June 17, 2022
palaces of light
well I have read up to book 104 so far, I started reading this fantastic series in march 2022, I read the paperbacks when I was 12 years old and read as many as I could afford at the time, I finally found the series again and was so happy that they were free with my amazon prime membership. well I have loved each one till I came to this one which I found so boring I just wanted to just go forward to the next book in the series but I persevered and finally got thru every boring page until finished… this has been so boring as to put me to sleep several times in the 2 days it took to read, this book was a total waste of space for me, I hope you like it better than me, good luck to you as
you read it or try too
well I have read up to book 104 so far, I started reading this fantastic series in march 2022, I read the paperbacks when I was 12 years old and read as many as I could afford at the time, I finally found the series again and was so happy that they were free with my amazon prime membership. well I have loved each one till I came to this one which I found so boring I just wanted to just go forward to the next book in the series but I persevered and finally got thru every boring page until finished… this has been so boring as to put me to sleep several times in the 2 days it took to read, this book was a total waste of space for me, I hope you like it better than me, good luck to you as
you read it or try too
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June 28, 2021This was not one of the better books in this serialized setting. A decent read but one that I am not likely to reread in the likely near future. Still for the male equivalent of a Harlequin, it was a decent time waster and not so terrible as to make me put it down.
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