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Exalted: Trilogy of the Second Age #3
Children of the Dragon
The Heavens Hide Their Eyes
His friends slain and his allies scattered, the Solar Exalted Yushuv turns to face his greatest nemesis alone. But the Prince of Shadows is not easy prey, and Yushuv has many other enemies lying in wait. Only the priest Wren could stand with him, but he has vanished into the Underworld itself!
- GenresFantasy
288 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2002
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Richard Dansky
108 books84 followersBy day, Richard Dansky works as a professional video game designer and writer for Red Storm/Ubisoft, with credits on games like Splinter Cell: Blacklist. By night, he writes fiction, with his most recent book being the short fiction collection SNOWBIRD GOTHIC. Richard lives in North Carolina with his wife and their inevitable cats, books, and collection of single malt whiskys.
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January 16, 2020
Shallow fantasy, ending a trilogy. Warriors on the run come to the end of the road, and have to stop a bunch of evil doers.
Only for hard core fantasy fans.
Only for hard core fantasy fans.
October 12, 2012
The Third book of a series of three set in the world of Exalted a role playing game by White Wolf. Recently i unpacked all my books after a move and separated the ones i still needed to read, when i came to this series i knew i had read the first book so i put the others to the side. When i picked up the seconds book of the series I kept getting this feeling like i had read it before, after checking the third book i found that i had read all three.
The point is the series as a whole is forgettable to the point you'll know you read it, the whole series could have worked as one book and been continued into 2 other books. Sadly this is one of those series that was made to suck as much money out of a fan base without giving them the quality product they are used to.
The point is the series as a whole is forgettable to the point you'll know you read it, the whole series could have worked as one book and been continued into 2 other books. Sadly this is one of those series that was made to suck as much money out of a fan base without giving them the quality product they are used to.
April 15, 2024
Wow! That’s about all I could say as I read through this finale of the Exalted trilogy by Richard Dansky. All the many pieces are coming together, and elements I was afraid the author would never get back to are woven in to make an epic conclusion. I should have never doubted; Dansky never fails to deliver. But as I read this book, I found myself terrified that characters I had grown to love might not make it to the end. This is Richard Dansky’s strength, creating engaging characters that you grow attached to, knowing that there will be an epic conclusion, but that you are not owed a fairy-tale ending by him. Unusual in a series like this is seeing just how far the characters have grown. Dansky always writes great combat and epic conclusions, and no more so is this displayed than in this final book, where the ending is both satisfying and gut-wrenching. You’ll struggle to put it down; be prepared for a late night finishing it off. The finale is both satisfying and powerfully intense.
February 17, 2013
Every once in a while, a book (or series of books) comes along that just sticks with you; the characters become living, vibrant beings in your mind, where you can't help but fly through the pages to find out what happens to them. And once you've finished, you mourn the ending of their story, but they live forever in your heart as you go through your life. This is not one of those books. Don't get me wrong, it's not terrible by any means; the story was involved enough to keep me, at the very least, from throwing my hands in the air and quitting on it. But there wasn't a thing about this novel, or any of the others in the series, that stood out to me.
With some other books I've read, when part of a series, I can let months elapse between reads and never forget what had happened already. In the time it took for me to make it from book two to book three (this novel), I'd not only forgotten what had happened up to this point, but I'd completely forgotten whom everybody was in the first place. Many of them come off as incredibly stereotypical, leaving them two-dimensional and utterly forgettable. Which is a shame, because they did start off with some potential.
It's fairly evident that this book, and the others of the series, weren't written to be good fantasy novels (as good as a novel can be when its spawned from a pen and paper RPG like Exalted), but was written, rather, to identify with its parent brand and introduce readers to a game system. It could have been worse, I suppose, but it could have also been a whole lot better.
With some other books I've read, when part of a series, I can let months elapse between reads and never forget what had happened already. In the time it took for me to make it from book two to book three (this novel), I'd not only forgotten what had happened up to this point, but I'd completely forgotten whom everybody was in the first place. Many of them come off as incredibly stereotypical, leaving them two-dimensional and utterly forgettable. Which is a shame, because they did start off with some potential.
It's fairly evident that this book, and the others of the series, weren't written to be good fantasy novels (as good as a novel can be when its spawned from a pen and paper RPG like Exalted), but was written, rather, to identify with its parent brand and introduce readers to a game system. It could have been worse, I suppose, but it could have also been a whole lot better.
April 13, 2012
How come this entry doesn't list Richard Dansky as the author, when his name is listed as such in the description?
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