The Forging of the Shadows: Book One of The Lightbringer Trilogy

by Oliver Johnson

Paperback, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

813

Publication

Roc Trade (1997), 480 pages

Description

The city of Thrull, once dedicated to Reh, God of Light, was conquered seven years ago by the vampire army of Lord Faran Gaton Nekhron. Now, the servants of Iss, God of Eternal Night and Life in Death, rule there. And then a night comes which has been foretold. A night when three people will find their destinies linked - with each other and the world. Urthred is a priest of flame, hideously scarred. Summoned to aid an uprising in Thrull, he soon finds himself a fugitive in the deadly nighttime streets. Jayal is the warrior son of Thrull's ex-ruler. Cursed by life-saving sorcery, he returns to the city with a magical sword, not knowing that a greater doom waits for him in the darkness. And Thalassa, once Jayal's fiancee, is now Lord Faran's plaything, eternally waiting for the bite which will end her life. But fate has another destiny in store for her. Together they must face the might of Iss and his dark empire.… (more)

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LibraryThing member Crewman_Number_6

This book was torture to get through. It was so incredibly slow. I kept waiting for the action to happen that never did.
While I generally like the fantasy genre, I found this book difficult to stick with. It was so thick and deliberately slow, I felt that it never went anywhere. It must be about 3

inches thick and the entire plot happens over the course of only one evening. I've never even bothered with the following books in the trilogy.

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LibraryThing member gilroy

Ouch, this book felt like someone grabbed a thesaurus and looked for the biggest word they could find to describe something. The word didn't always fit what they described and they lacked a true action element that might drive one to enjoy this genre. I'm a fan of vampiric stories, especially ones

where the vampire is the hunted rather than the hunter. This book, while trying to draw on that concept, takes too much out of its reader. Frequently I kept wanting to just give up on the book. It needs to be edited, with less characters. Centralize the plot more with less. I've got the rest of the trilogy, but don't expect to read them any time soon.

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