The Call of Kerberos

Twilight of Kerberos #5

by Jonathan Oliver

Twilight, a world overshadowed by a vast gas giant, bathing the earth in its otherworldly glow. A world of magic and warriors, zealots and monsters. It is here that the human race cling to a small peninsula, ignorant of what lies beyond the World's Ridge mountains. But there are those amongst this fledgling race with truly extraordinary powers, heroes who would delve deep into the mysteries of the past and bring new light to Twilight. Twilight of Kerberos is a sword and sorcery series, following the adventures of a group of characters with unique talents. The world changes for Silus - a simple fisherman from Nurn - when a man on the run from the Final Faith tries to persuade him on an extraordinary voyage. Then an ancient evil bursts from the sea and tries to claim Silus as one of their own. To discover the truth about his legacy Silus must take to the forbidding Twilight seas. There, the truth will forever change his world and threaten existence itself!

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic, Adventure, Action

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jonathan Oliver is the British Fantasy Award winning editor of Magic, House of Fear, End of the Line, End of the Road, World War Cthulhu, Five Stories High and Dangerous Games. He is the author of the collection The Language of Beasts, out now from Black Shuck Books.

Reviews

[Seek · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've rarely failed to finish a book, but in the end, The Call of Kerberos was this rare book for me.

The worldbuilding wasn't too bad, and ordinarily, I should have found it interesting, but the writing was uninspiring, and the characters were generally flat, made of cardboard, and boring; I had no investment in the plot, or in what happened to them. (I did dislike some of the characters but I couldn't even be bothered to read on to see if Bad Things happened to them, which means I didn't even have a negative investment in them.)

All in all, I'm not entirely sure why this book fell dead in the water for me, but I didn't finish it, and will be moving on to new reads.

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[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm in two minds about this book. I do quite like the idea of multiple authors playing in a shared world, but this is not the strongest entry in the series so far. The writing is good enough to keep me with the story up to the end, but I really wasn't buying into the premise - and I think this may turn out to be a problem with the series as a whole.