A Scottish author who breaks all the rules of fantasy writing with a bravura sense of place and dislocation. No wizards or spells or quests are to be found in his mesmerizing series The Book of All Hours, the 2nd volume of which, INK rewrites history through a drunken maze while taking the reader through a landslide journey into wonder.
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When reality is written on skin, only blood will do as ink’ The second book in the groundbreaking literary fantasy series that began with Vellum, which was one of the most astonishing SF novels of 2005.
Challenging is not a strong enough word for this harrowing
second book in the Book of All Hours trilogy; the complexity of the
writing is a direct reflection of the protagonists' predicaments.
Requires focus and undisturbed windows of reading opportunity (e.g.
flight to Oz or similar) to indulge and appreciate fully the brilliance
of the tale and its parallels to our own place in the firmament.
It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . . . in their Havens in the Hinter.
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It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . . . in their Havens in the Hinter.
Ink: The Book of All Hours 2 features in the following genres: Fiction, Science Fiction
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Ink: The Book of All Hours 2 was written by Hal Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan
