Canticle (Psalms of Isaak Series #2) by Ken Scholes
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- Pub. Date: October 2009
- 384pp
- Sales Rank: 33,387
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2009
- Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 384pp
- Sales Rank: 33,387
- Series: Psalms of Isaak Series, #2
- ISBN-13: 9780765321282
- ISBN: 0765321289
Synopsis
Come back to the Named Lands in this compelling sequel to Ken Scholes amazing novel Lamentation.
It is nine months after the end of the previous book. Many noble allies have come to the Ninefold Forest for a Feast in honor of General Rudolfo’s first-born child. Jin Li Tam, his wife and mother of his heir, lies in childbed.
As the feast begins, the doors of the hall fly open and invisible assassins begin attacking. All of Rudolfo’s noble guests are slain, including Hanric, the Marsh Queen’s Shadow. And on the Keeper’s Gate, which guards the Named Lands from the Churning Waste, a strange figure appears, with a message for Petronus, the Hidden Pope.
Thus begins the second movement of The Psalms of Isaak, Canticle.
Publishers Weekly
The sequel to Scholes's stellar debut, 2008's Lamentation, ingeniously fuses epic fantasy and postapocalyptic science fiction. Magicked assassins kill numerous leaders from across the Named Lands and send the region into economic and political turmoil. Amid the chaos, Jin Li Tam gives birth to General Rudolfo's son, sickly Jakob. As Rudolfo sets out in search of a cure, young Marsh Queen Winters ascends the throne of her people only to realize her past has been an elaborate lie; former Androfrancine Pope Petronus risks his life to bring some semblance of peace to the realm; and Nebios ben Hebda uncovers bombshell revelations regarding the Order's “metal men” and the history of the Old World. Abounding in prophecy, myth and mystery, this grand-scale saga is a towering storytelling tour de force. (Oct.)
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KEN SCHOLES’s short fiction has been appearing in various magazines and anthologies for the last eight years. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future contest. Lamentation was his first novel. Originally from the Puget Sound area, Ken currently lives near Portland, Oregon.
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Get Ready For a 350 Page Thrill Ride And File Your "To-Do" List Away For Another Weekend!Tby Anonymous
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November 12, 2009: he 2nd book in the series is guaranteed to keep you riveted to your favorite chair. Forget the leaf raking, fall chores and anything else you had planned for the weekend because once you start reading this book, you won't be able to put it down. Now that the players have been established in "Lamentations", Ken Scholes takes you on a journey that combines plot and character twists that will, at some moments, make you say to yourself, "I didn't see that coming, at all". Even as a novel, you get an epic feel for the action that threads itself through the storyline. The characters, although previously introduced in the first book, continue to develop throuhout Canticles. With Ken's imagination and style you can't predict which direction the story will take them. Who knows where or how it will end by the time we get to the end of the 5th book. What I do know, we will all be saying to ourselves, "I didn't see that coming, at all".
I Also Recommend: L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 21, Lamentation (Psalms of Isaak Series #1).
The second book in the Psalms of Isaak series.by Melhay
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November 12, 2009: I have really been taken away by this series so far. There are going to be five books in all. The characters are well developed and you really get a feel for them all, even the ones you think may be the "bad" guy or girl. The world that is created in these first two books is amazing. You have different cultures, religions, believes and gods. All well done to give you just what you need to understand the rules and what is going on, yet enough to keep you with the feel of mystery.
I think Ken Scholes is an awesome author with an epic tale to tell. He lays the paths of possible ways the story could go, we just have to wonder if we are thinking the correct path. Just when you are on the right path you come to a fork in the road again. The story can change directions at any time, but the rules never change and the information is there to keep you on the correct path of thought, thus creating a great mystery adventure.Being a second book of a series Ken has started us right into the next story. Not even 50 pages into the book and I was caught up with where I left off on the first book and full scale right into the middle of another great mystery of the Whymr maze in this amazing fantasy book.This book has; mechoservitors ~ Kens' term for metal men, magick ~ which has limits, Gods ~ are a distant past but are there in the background, an ancient vendetta of two old families and ways of lives, and current people trying their hardest to find where there home is.These books are amazing reads from the point of view of the characters. You learn so much in this way with the way Ken writes it. Very well done to understand what is going on, just pay attention to get the details.
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