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Shadowfall
The First Chronicle of the Godslayer

by James Clemens



      James Clemens' highly readable Wit'ch quintet made him a favorite with anybody who likes a good traditional fantasy with lots of adventure. This first volume in a new set looks like he is still delivering the goods. Tylar de Noche was a shadowknight before his disgrace, and now he haunts disreputable places as a mere crippled shadow of his former self. But when he is accused of killing a deity it looks as though things have taken a turn for even worse luck, especially as he didn't do it. Escape is the only course, and soon he will learn that the world is not quite the place he thought it was.

Here is an author who knows his stuff. It's a fat book, but it does contain a fairly fat story and plenty of people (although not too many) and different venues and plot strands to keep it all bubbling away merrily. He has created a strange new way of magic involving the bodily fluids of the deities that seems to work, and has given his characters a fascinating world to get into trouble in. Action for both male and female characters, some unguessable twists and turns and plenty of unexplained mysteries make this a good start to a fine new series. More, please.

The Book

Roc
May 2005
Trade Paperback
1841493945
Fantasy
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2005
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