An ornate yet dark fantasy, with echoes of Scott Lynch, Robin Hobb and Jon Courtenay Grimwood. An original and beautifully imagined world, populated by unforgettable characters. A debut novel which garnered rave reviews on publication from fellow authors, bloggers and the likes of SFX magazine.
Lucien de Fontein has grown up different. One of the mysterious and misshapen Orfano who appear around the Kingdom of Landfall, he is a talented fighter yet constantly lonely, tormented by his deformity, and well aware that he is a mere pawn in a political game. Ruled by an insane King and the venomous Majordomo, it is a world where corruption and decay are deeply rooted - but to a degree Lucien never dreams possible when he first discovers the plight of the 'insane' women kept in the haunting Sanatoria.
Told in a continuous narrative interspersed with flashbacks we see Lucien grow up under the care of his tutors. We watch him forced through rigorous Testings, and fall in love, set against his yearning to discover where he comes from, and how his fate is tied to that of every one of the deformed Orfano in the Kingdom, and of the eerie Sanatoria itself.
| ISBN: | 9780575134027 |
| Publication date: | 8th January 2015 |
| Author: | Den Patrick |
| Publisher: | Gollancz an imprint of Orion Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 321 pages |
| Series: | The Erebus Sequence |
| Primary Genre | Fantasy |
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An ornate yet dark fantasy, with echoes of Scott Lynch, Robin Hobb and Jon Courtenay Grimwood. An original and beautifully imagined world, populated by unforgettable characters.
The Boy with the Porcelain Blade features in the following genres: Fantasy, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Boy with the Porcelain Blade was written by Den Patrick and published by Gollancz an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
The Boy with the Porcelain Blade has 321 pages
Yes it is part of The Erebus Sequence series
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. Print on Demand / Special Order.
