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Daemon Gates #2
Night of the Daemon
After their adventures in Day of the Daemon, Alaric and Dietz head south to the Border Princes, the wild, lawless land south of the Empire. Narrowly escaping the clutches of a liche lord, their quest leads them to a citadel full of Chaos cultists. Against such impossible odds, how can our heroes and their new ally get in to defeat the daemon this time?
- GenresScience Fiction Fantasy
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 30, 2007
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About the author
Aaron Rosenberg
234 books117 followersAaron Rosenberg is an award-winning, bestselling novelist, children’s book author, and game designer. He's written original fiction (including the NOOK-bestselling humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the O.C.L.T. supernatural thriller series), tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and Road Less Traveled for Eureka), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), children's books (including an original Scholastic Bestseller series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter @gryphonrose.
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June 2, 2012
This is the second on this awesome trilogy. The first I reviewed here and I must say that so far I am enjoying it. There are many trilogies where the second book suffers from the plot, characterization or whatever. But this book I didn't feel like it.
This second book is almost set in the Border Princes, which for me worked just fine since I think I've never read anything set there.
Again this author gives us a good story (I think it was not as good as the previous one) but what lacks in depth gains in history lessons. We learn a lot about the Border Princes. How they work and what are made off. We learn of other humans settlements outside the empire and the history of the Tomb Kings which resembles (a lot) with the old egyptians. I don't think I have ever read any book in Black Library that gave so much of this fluff... ( i think this is the correct term). Again this book we have our two main (and the tree-fox) characters from the previous books. Alaric the noble and archaelogist and Dietz the tomb raider and the one doing all the dirty work (and Glouste). We get to know a little more of their relations and how they think. So another point to characterization. There are more than a dozen small characters helpers or villains but no one worth mention. There are only two that I hope to see them later. One a bounty hunter that in the beggining captures then turns their friend (if you can call it that) and another a araby woman which controls a small kingdom. Besides those characters the others are flat and not that good.
The story begins in the end of the other book as they go search for clues about a artifact with heretic powers. In the way they battle humans and skeletons and even a lich. For the second time they defeat a Khorne Demon (this one not trapped inbetween dimensions as the previous one) but inside a man (nevertheless trapped). Maybe in the third book he will be fully released.
We get to know a lot more about Alaric and it's transformation... There is something odd in that character. A change. Being a avid reader of Black Library that's not a good thing. When I mention odd I mention things like healing super fast or the demons knowing his name or dreams that reveal something important like a way to a tomb or a city. I think the development of this character will be the most important thing on the third book.
I really hope that the third book continues with this pace and characterization and plot. The question forming in my mind is this... Why didn't he write more books to Black Library?
This second book is almost set in the Border Princes, which for me worked just fine since I think I've never read anything set there.
Again this author gives us a good story (I think it was not as good as the previous one) but what lacks in depth gains in history lessons. We learn a lot about the Border Princes. How they work and what are made off. We learn of other humans settlements outside the empire and the history of the Tomb Kings which resembles (a lot) with the old egyptians. I don't think I have ever read any book in Black Library that gave so much of this fluff... ( i think this is the correct term). Again this book we have our two main (and the tree-fox) characters from the previous books. Alaric the noble and archaelogist and Dietz the tomb raider and the one doing all the dirty work (and Glouste). We get to know a little more of their relations and how they think. So another point to characterization. There are more than a dozen small characters helpers or villains but no one worth mention. There are only two that I hope to see them later. One a bounty hunter that in the beggining captures then turns their friend (if you can call it that) and another a araby woman which controls a small kingdom. Besides those characters the others are flat and not that good.
The story begins in the end of the other book as they go search for clues about a artifact with heretic powers. In the way they battle humans and skeletons and even a lich. For the second time they defeat a Khorne Demon (this one not trapped inbetween dimensions as the previous one) but inside a man (nevertheless trapped). Maybe in the third book he will be fully released.
We get to know a lot more about Alaric and it's transformation... There is something odd in that character. A change. Being a avid reader of Black Library that's not a good thing. When I mention odd I mention things like healing super fast or the demons knowing his name or dreams that reveal something important like a way to a tomb or a city. I think the development of this character will be the most important thing on the third book.
I really hope that the third book continues with this pace and characterization and plot. The question forming in my mind is this... Why didn't he write more books to Black Library?
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March 6, 2016
A bit frustrating, though perhaps that's my own fault for trying to read this so quickly after book one. Ostensibly a story depicting the answer to "what if Alaric & Dietz went on a dungeon crawl?" (not a bad idea), it sadly just felt less interesting than book one, and I didn't connect to any of the add-on characters as much as I did with the precursor.
I skipped a lot, and didn't feel like I missed anything. I'll give book three a try somewhere down the road.
I skipped a lot, and didn't feel like I missed anything. I'll give book three a try somewhere down the road.
August 18, 2014
As plenty of people have said before this book really served as a pre-stage to book 3. Or so it felt to me, anyway. Where the first book was more psychologically oriented this one focusses more on the physical. The precise area descriptions make for a detailed imagination, which is always good. I'll be reading the 3rd book surely.
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