Night's Master [Hardcover]

Tanith Lee (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Highland Press, Oak Park, IL (January 1, 1984)
• ASIN: B000MVS68A
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark and Magical..., September 14, 2001

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axel (Roskilde, DK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nights Master (Hardcover)

...and you have the strange feeling that you are reading something that is a dream, and yet it is so magical and fairytalish, but in a dark and twisted way.

In this book we meet the Prince of Demons, Azhrarn, who plots and schemes to his own dark ends. He is an evil, selfish antagonist, and yet Sivesh, his adopted son is the 'good guy', falls prey to his evilness and in the end...

The book is written like a myth, with strange and wonderful things like silver collars woven of tears, and demon horses that ride the night...

Enjoy it!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strong prose and a richly imagined world, April 30, 2001

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S. Gustafson "Holy Roman Emperor" (New Albany, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nights Master (Hardcover)

Fantasy, ultimately, depends on description to carry it. The more alien the landscapes and psychologies an author wishes to describe, the more she must rely on her style and vocabulary to carry it off.

-Night's Master- kicks off the Flat Earth series, about a richly imagined, glittering, world of cruel and proud daemons. What ultimately carries off the story of Azhrarn is Tanith Lee's strong prose style. You can tell that she must have been the victim of a classical education.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tanith Lee's BEST, June 26, 1998

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Kate Lawrence - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nights Master (Hardcover)

Tanith Lee weaves tales of demons and mortals in ways that are familiar, yet with such singular and unexpected twists that even the most well-read fan of this genre will find her work refreshing. The entire Flat Earth series is at once terrible and wonderful. What is it like to be the Prince of Demons? What would happen if a mortal suddenly was given immortality? What would the Prince of Darkness do if suddenly he had no humans to torment, much as he might despise them? All these are questions that Lee is not afraid to pose through her characters from commoners to kings; from demons to gods so strange we can scarce comprehend them. With powers of description that are as evocative as Joseph Conrad's, and with the ability to paint characters in the style of a Charles Dickens, she spins a tapestry of events that binds these series of self-standing tales into a marvelous whole. Is it any wonder I highly recommend her work? Get all five of the Flat Earth series. If you are like me, you will find yourself reading them time and again.