Paperback, 760 pages
简体中文, chinese language
Published Nov. 1, 2016 by 重庆出版社.
约书亚王子城破兵败，不得已带领残卒幕僚一路逃亡，苟延残喘。
矮怪宾拿比克协助西蒙拿到神剑“荆棘”，却又身陷囹圄，被族人治罪。
米蕊茉公主离家出走，漂泊于群岛与外海，身边只有个酒鬼修士陪伴。
隐士提阿摩身负双重重任，沿沼泽行舟，但又处处遇险，朝不保夕。
梅格雯为替血亲复仇，不惜潜入山底隧道寻觅旧神，但被人们视为精神错乱。
主角西蒙再次与同伴失散，好容易寻至希瑟圣地，又被恩人软禁，永世不得离开。
草原马蹄滚滚，雪山巨人作乱；
恶海妖歌唱响，泽地鳄蟹横行；
地底迷宫幽暗，荒林巫妇乱舞；
就连貌似和平的圣地角天华，也隐藏着破灭的阴影。
而这一切暗潮，都指向同一个地点——诀别石。
在风暴之王掀起的灭世暗潮中，这是唯一的安全之所——至少暂时安全。
Solid sequel that expands both plot and world.
Very well executed creative writing 101, with ideas stolen from all over the place. It would be entertaining if one didn't know absolutely all of the tropes. Unfortunately for Williams, I know them.
This book took me forever to read. It was good enough that I could not abandon it completely, but the endless descriptions, pages of details that were ho-hum and slow moving plot kept me from staying up all night to finish it, as is my wont with many fantasy novels, until the last 100 pages, when it got really good.
Why read it? Well, there is an erudite troll, and several interesting female characters including a believable, strong-minded princesses who manage to successfully be human and heroines. In fact, that is one of the best things about this series is that the characters are much more real and flawed than one might normally find in a heroic fantasy. And I do recommend to any fantasy reader.
The downsides might be that there is a Christian, black and white division between good and evil that makes it a bit old-fashioned. There …
This book took me forever to read. It was good enough that I could not abandon it completely, but the endless descriptions, pages of details that were ho-hum and slow moving plot kept me from staying up all night to finish it, as is my wont with many fantasy novels, until the last 100 pages, when it got really good.
Why read it? Well, there is an erudite troll, and several interesting female characters including a believable, strong-minded princesses who manage to successfully be human and heroines. In fact, that is one of the best things about this series is that the characters are much more real and flawed than one might normally find in a heroic fantasy. And I do recommend to any fantasy reader.
The downsides might be that there is a Christian, black and white division between good and evil that makes it a bit old-fashioned. There are also many landscape descriptions and there could be more monster- fighting. I have been corrupted by the graphic sex and violence that the George Martin series and to a less extent, the Robert Jordan series, blesses one with... and the magic isn't all that cool.
