Name: The Wandering Fire
Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780586215234

Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy-fortælling om fem studerende fra universitetet i Toronto, der inddrages i kampen mellem onde og gode magter i middelalderriget Fionavar.

The Wandering Fire

In the second novel in Guy Gavriel Kay’s critically acclaimed Fionavar Tapestry, five men and women from our world must play their parts in a colossal war, as the first of all worlds confronts an ancient evil… After a thousand years of imprisonment the Unraveller has broken free and frozen Fionavar in the ice of eternal winter. His terrible vengeance has begun to take its toll on mortals and demi-gods, mages and priestesses, dwarves and the Children of Light. The five brought from Earth across the tapestry of worlds must act to wake the allies Fionavar desperately needs. But no one can know if these figures out of legend have power enough to shatter the icy grip of death upon the land—or if they even want to...

Prashanth Srivatsa

Everything that was expected. There's good, there's evil. There's a war and there's collateral damage. When you stop feeling for the dead, you know the expressive juice is lacking. But amid all, Kay shines with his rich tapestry of mythology and culture, and plants images in your head to last a long time. Onwards to the end of the trilogy...

The Wandering Fire is the second novel of Guy Gavriel Kay's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry. A mage's power has brought five university students from our world into a realm where an ancient evil has freed itself from captivity to wreak revenge on its enemies... The ice of eternal winter has reached out to enshroud Fionavar, the first of all worlds. For the Unraveller has broken free after millennia enchained--and now his terrible vengeance has begun to take its toll on mortals and immortals, mages and warriors, dwarves and the "lios alfar," the Children of Light. Only five men and women of our own world, brought by magic across the Tapestry of worlds to the very heart of the Weaver's pattern, can hope to wake the allies they so desperately need. Yet none can foretell whether even these beings out of legend have the power to shatter the Unraveller's icy grip of death upon the land...

The Wandering Fire

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