Fall of the Kings [Unknown Binding]

Ellen Kushner (Author), Delia Sherman (Author)

Product Details

• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: Tandem Library (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1417715898
• ISBN-13: 978-1417715893
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,295,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars intriguing, complicated and engrossing, November 26, 2002

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A. Rappoport (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fall of The Kings (Paperback)

What a lovely book, rich and layered, set in an alternate universe witout the usual cliches, it feels familiar and strange at the same time. I loved Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer, and this is a great successor. The people, heroes and anti-heroes alike, are treated sympathetically through the course of the book, and even the minor characters are intriguing and surprising. I'm not usually a fan of atmospheric novels, but this one worked beautifully. It also has enough plot and witty dialog and character development to keep me reading until *way* past my bedtime.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy sequel to Swordspoint!, November 8, 2002

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"spellbound-i" (Tokyo) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fall of The Kings (Paperback)

Wow. I waited several weeks for an unfilled order for this book at [a store] and finally gave up, going to Amazon.com in desperation. My copy arrived yesterday and I was awake until 3:00 AM reading this delicious, sexy, thrilling, magical tale that I literally could not put down for hours! The son of the memorable Alec, late of "Swordspoint", is the focus of this story, a handsome, dissolute young lordling, (clever and witty, but not so caustic as his father) who attends the famous University and falls for a young professor. The professor has been researching the ancient tales of the kings and their wizards, their relationships, and their power struggles. The magical legends, believed to be full of fanciful notions of mysticism, appear to be coming back to life in the world with young Theron Campion, the noble, and his professor reliving the ancient roles of the kings and wizards before them. This book is beautifully written, darker and sexier than "Swordspoint", and just as thrilling and new. I LOVED this book. Seek out the comic book series (yes, comic book) "A Distant Soil", issue #29, for a short story by Delia Sherman entitled "The Tragedy of King Alexander the Stag" for an original, nowhere else published story of the Kings and Wizards of the "Swordspoint" world. I can't recommend this book enough.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A treat for all the senses, November 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Fall of The Kings (Paperback)

Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman's The Fall of the Kings is a worthy sequel to Kushner's earlier Swordspoint. The excitement is there, the political intrigue, the food (pickled cherries!), and most of all, what people do to one another.

Get the hot chocolate out and enjoy this bawdy, intellectually stimulating novel of love and betrayal.