Brotherhood of the wolf

by David Farland

Paper Book, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Series

The Runelords (2)

Genres

Publication

London : Orbit, 2007, c1999.

Description

Fantasy. Fiction. HTML: David Farland delivers the second in his high fantasy Runelords series, featuring a complex system of magic and a wondrous, expertly realized world. Raj Ahten, ruler of Indhopal, has used enough forcibles to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. Ahten seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule, destroying anyone in his path. But young Prince Gaborn has fulfilled a two-thousand-year-old prophecy and become the Earth King, a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the Earth itself. He has managed to drive off Raj Ahten, but Ahten is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses, Ahten seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power and to crush him. But as they weaken each other's forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable inhuman enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member drneutron

Decent enough follow-on to the first volume in the series. Farland interweaves multiple stories and divides up the chapters into days, yet in a few spots I wasn't quite sure where event were relative to each other. This is a minor quibble in an otherwise solid story.

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LibraryThing member willowcove

A very good sequel

LibraryThing member nursewidener

"The epic continues" Overall Performance Story Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, this audiobook would be easy to recommend to a friend. The audiobook/book unlike some others is not a disappointment when the first book is so intriguing and interesting as "Sum of All

Men."

Who was your favorite character and why?
Roland Boreson and Spring were both introduced in this installment of "The Runelords" these characters bring a new threat and heroism to the series all at the same time.

Which scene was your favorite?
The introduction of Spring and the Averan eating the brains of a dead Reaver and getting its memories. This is a whole big bag of unknown good or bad or other worms.

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LibraryThing member Karlstar

I thought this series had an interesting premise. What if via magic, you could 'borrow' attributes from someone else? The result is super leaders and super warriors - leaving behind whole institutions of blind and crippled peasants. Its a horrifying thought and it makes for an interesting setting.

I enjoyed the book but mostly for how he explores this concept.

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LibraryThing member SweetKokoro

You could cut out 300 pages worth of this book if the author hadn’t felt the need to constantly remind the reader of how many endowments one person had every single time it came up. I know who has what and how many and who has none, it got so ridiculous that I started tuning it out. It’s

actually making me hate the magic system, it’s not complex but the author treats it like it is with the constant reminders of how it works.

Overall this particular book was so drab and boring and just filled with nothing. Even the fights at the end were boring because it was all written in a ‘explain how the fight will go’ method instead of just having the fight happen.

I blacked out most of what happened in the middle because it was just so boring.

Also I am SO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT THE GREEN WOMAN’S BREASTS!! for goodness sake it is such an unnecessary description, it adds nothing to her character. I was hoping it would stop but no it only increased so I can tell what’s gonna happen in the next couple of volumes.

The only thing I liked about this book was Roland.

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