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| Original Title: | The White-Luck Warrior |
| ISBN: | 1841495395 (ISBN13: 9781841495392) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Aspect-Emperor #2, The Second Apocalypse #5 |
R. Scott Bakker
Trade Paperback | Pages: 587 pages Rating: 4.09 | 4793 Users | 132 Reviews
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| Title | : | The White Luck Warrior (The Aspect-Emperor #2) |
| Author | : | R. Scott Bakker |
| Book Format | : | Trade Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 587 pages |
| Published | : | May 5th 2011 by Orbit (first published April 5th 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. Dark Fantasy. High Fantasy |
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A score of years after he first walked into the histories of men, Anasûrimbor Kellhus rules all the three seas, the first true Aspect-Emperor in a thousand years.As Kellhus and his Great Ordeal march ever farther into the perilous wastes of the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with not only the Gods, but her own family as well. Achamian, meanwhile, leads his own ragtag expedition to the legendary ruins of Sauglish, and to a truth he can scarce survive, let alone comprehend.
Into this tumult walks the White Luck Warrior, assassin and messiah both, executing a mission as old as the World's making...
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Ratings: 4.09 From 4793 Users | 132 ReviewsArticle About Books The White Luck Warrior (The Aspect-Emperor #2)
Let me preface this review by saying upfront that I really enjoyed the previous books by this author. The three books from the first series, and the first book of this series, are among my favourite books. I found the world building and the characterisation to be excellent and I was very much looking forward to reading this book. With that behind me I am very disappointed in the result. For me the entire novel exists to get the characters from point A to point B in the largest number of wordsMan, these just keep getting better and better. This is the second book of the second trilogy of the overarching Second Apocalypse story, the third (and last?) being released in 2015, if I'm not mistaken.The first trilogy - The Prince of Nothing - reads like a fantasy take on the first crusade to Jerusalem, coupled with elements of Dune, the Silmarillion and LoTR. Imagine Aragorn going insane, and becoming a prophet with a mission to unite the whole world under an iron rule, in order to protect
I really enjoyed this, and thought it was overall stronger than the previous book. Although I liked the book overall, I would additionally say it got stronger as it went -- to where the last 150 pages or so were hard to put down.Basically, there are three stories. One is focused on "the slog," the effort by Achamian and Mimara, along with Cleric, Kosoter, and some others, to reach Ishual. The second is focused on the Ordeal, mainly on Sorweel, but eventually opens to include a couple of Kellhus'
An Overwhelming experience. Its shocking how this, a work of words rises above, transcends words. With this series Bakker has become Tolkiens lost, maniacally, diabolically perverted, philosophical twin. If Tolkien was the creator of fantasy as it stands today, Bakker is its proud defiler. This man is pure evil to write what he writes and still command the adoration and awe of the reader, in-spite of the disgust, in-spite of the awareness of the mutilation.
I love it!I'm not going to mention anything about the particulars of the story; there are enough reviews about that. I think the most fascinating thing about these books is the question of who the hell the "good guys" are.I don't know!This is a moral ambiguity that would make GRRM scratch his head. It's not exactly comfortable, but it is fascinating.If you've read any of/anything about The Second Apocalypse series, you probably know that the antagonists are a VILE, ancient evil. They seem to put
There is much to like and much to dislike in this series, much and more of it in this single volume. WLW may be the best of both trilogies. The story flips back and forth between three main threads. Achamian and Mimara's remains my favorite, and the tragic Nonman Cleric featured heavily there. They face another epic danger from the ancient past, a part which stood toe-to-toe in quality with Achamian's final confrontation in the first trilogy.Esmenet's seat of power continues to sway in the
I always find books like this difficult to review, because I acknowledge whilst I enjoyed it, most people would find it pretty tiresome. The premise, of Neitzschean superman let loose in a medieval Near East with a singular mission to prevent The Apocalypse may raise an eyebrow or two, and when it comes to the super-powers of the Anasurimbor Bakker resorts to a fair amount of hand-waving and obfuscation. It works because it does, and like the Believer-Kings, you just have to accept it. We take
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