Kothifir the Great, ruled by an obscenely obese god‑king, peopled with colorful, dueling guilds, guarded by the Southern Host of the Kencyrath. Here Jame arrives, only to find that the turbulent city claims more of her attention as the Talisman than the Host’s training fields do as a second year randon cadet.

Mysteries abound: Caravans plunge deep into the hostile Southern Wastes and return laden with fabulous riches ‑‑ from what source, and why do they crumble to dust if not claimed by the god‑king’s touch? Karnids from Urakarn prowl the shadows, preaching the return of their mysterious prophet. An unstable Kencyr temple rumbles in the outer, decayed rings of the city. Then too, someone in the Host’s camp is trying to get Jame killed.

In order to save the present, Jame must search the past, be it fifteen years ago when as a boy her brother Torisen arrived here, unknown and unwanted, or three thousand years ago when the Wastes were a great sea ringed with rich civilizations. Somehow, Tori survived. Somehow, the cities of the plain were destroyed in one catastrophic night. Now Kothifir's gods have lost their power and its proud towers are falling. What curse out of the past has struck it? Jame, a potential Nemesis, must try to stop the destruction‑‑without undoing time itself.


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    Worth the read. A little slower than past books, but in a good cause. It would be hard to dash ahead into further epic-scale plot without first making progress on some of the smaller weaves.


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    Disappointing. The first book of the series is one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written. I believe the greatest, 8-). The followup novels don't reach the same pitch but add satisfying depth to the chronicles. This book unfortunately barely moves the story along. The best writing is nearly all taken from previous books. Many previous incidents are revisited, when they should have been left shrouded in mystery. Hoping that future novels come along sooner and have more meat in them.

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