![]() They’re just marching ceaselessly through Selenoth, resisted by the Savondese (a sort of medieval France analogue) with a little help from Marcus Valerius’ legion which managed to retreat from Magnus’ forces going through caves in the last book and also by a dwindling supply of elves. Why are all these orcs marching on the land of elves and men? The elves don’t know. ![]() Nobody really seems to care about the Whys here. The orcs were a sort of personality-free horde of green slime that the well-realized Legions of the Amorran army could annihilate mercilessly in the first book. The focus is taken off Amorr almost entirely.Īnd that focus is now placed on the orcs. Corvus was placed in the center of the political struggle that was going on there, a struggle which affected the story arcs of some other key POV characters (Severa, Aulan and Marcus) in important ways. The capital of Amorr was the nexus for A Throne of Bones. The new hand after Eddard was Tyrion and so we had someone to fill in the gap. The primary actor in King’s Landing became a sort of prime-protagonist among POV characters. The reason that replacement was possible was because Martin and his readers understood quickly enough that King’s Landing was a sort of political nexus for the world he built and therefore a centre-point for the story. Martin replaced him with Tyrion, a fan favourite, and everything went on just famously. That leaves us with a similar predicament to what happened in a Clash of Kings after Eddard Stark died. Valerius Corvus, the primary protagonist of sorts of the first book is dead. I was obviously very excited for the sequel and purchased it as soon as I was able. And it also had an intriguing mystery at it’s core. ![]() It had an diverse band of characters with sufficiently fleshed out story arcs. It had a tremendously tight grasp on the multi-POV mechanic, especially when it came to tension and pace. While it did not match the prosaic beauty of any of Martin’s work, it did a lot of things very very right. The first book was written as a literary rebuke to GRRM’s ASOIAF and it’s denigration into nonsense over the past two books. It also had PG-13 swear words and a sex scene. It was set in the same universe as Summa Elvetica which is a sort of theological fantasy adventure about a young cleric-in-training trying to discover whether elves have souls. ![]() Subversive does not begin to describe it.Ī Throne of Bones fit in very well there, though. It has now become entirely unexperimental now, or so I have heard but this place was responsible for Amish Vampires in Space. Jordan and then a whole slew of very mediocre fantasy novels. However, it was initially published by the Hinterlands imprint of what was erstwhile known as Marcher Lord Press, the folks responsible for giving us Steve Rzasa, Kerry Nietz and Just B. I distinctly remember Beale referring to it as an epic fantasy novel written by a Christian. The author would be loath to describe it as such, though. And that in itself, makes for some interesting problems.Ī Sea of Skulls is a sequel to A Throne of Bones, the only Christian fantasy novel written in this century that I’ve really enjoyed. I think a few perspective characters have been removed entirely. And by half a book, I don’t think it’s just been cut lengthwise into two. The entire thing will be published in May. A Sea of Skulls, as you can purchase it, is only half the entire story. See, the conundrum I’m facing trying to review this is a strange one.
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