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Vel Chronicles
Hope's War
For the city of Hope, stability is a memory. Counseled by Lord Denon, the leader of the Church, Vel, the new and very reluctant young king, has unintentionally prompted a bloody civil war. Pounded by an unrelenting winter and faced with diminishing food supplies, the city of Hope is carved into a battleground.
In the midst of shifting alliances, Vel relies on Lord Denon and General Wunic-his military adviser-to help him end the conflict. But the situation deteriorates. The only hope is a cache of food reportedly stockpiled by the mysterious Frill in the abandoned ruins south of the city.
Against the backdrop of social and political anarchy and widespread starvation, Vel must make the dangerous journey to the ruins and make contact-and come to terms with-the Frill.
What Vel finds instead is a powerful kind of computer-based portal into the future. A late-twenty-first-century future controlled by a brilliant but ruthless terrorist known only as Blakes. But what is the link between Blakes-a cold-blooded mass murderer from the future-and the conflict devastating Hope?
Vel must find the answer. And fast. Time is running out. For Hope. And for Vel. Harsh snowdrifts bury the dead, loyalties have become strained. Vel must face the horror not only of Hope's past, but of its future.
In the midst of shifting alliances, Vel relies on Lord Denon and General Wunic-his military adviser-to help him end the conflict. But the situation deteriorates. The only hope is a cache of food reportedly stockpiled by the mysterious Frill in the abandoned ruins south of the city.
Against the backdrop of social and political anarchy and widespread starvation, Vel must make the dangerous journey to the ruins and make contact-and come to terms with-the Frill.
What Vel finds instead is a powerful kind of computer-based portal into the future. A late-twenty-first-century future controlled by a brilliant but ruthless terrorist known only as Blakes. But what is the link between Blakes-a cold-blooded mass murderer from the future-and the conflict devastating Hope?
Vel must find the answer. And fast. Time is running out. For Hope. And for Vel. Harsh snowdrifts bury the dead, loyalties have become strained. Vel must face the horror not only of Hope's past, but of its future.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published August 17, 2002
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August 27, 2020
Hope's War is the far less interesting sequel to Hope's End and I don't know what to say about it beyond comparing it to its predecessor.
Everything that was good about the previous book feels like its missing. The characters are just pushed from place to place, I wish that we were kept in the dark about Blakes past because that would have been more interesting, and the political understanding in Hope's End seems accidental when you read this book.
This book is not without merit, but what merit there is feels spread out too wide for me to honestly recommend this. It's a slog and it's much better to imagine what happened after Hope's End than read what the author came up with.
Everything that was good about the previous book feels like its missing. The characters are just pushed from place to place, I wish that we were kept in the dark about Blakes past because that would have been more interesting, and the political understanding in Hope's End seems accidental when you read this book.
This book is not without merit, but what merit there is feels spread out too wide for me to honestly recommend this. It's a slog and it's much better to imagine what happened after Hope's End than read what the author came up with.
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December 10, 2011hrm, so far not great.
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