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Skybowl by Melanie Rawn [Rawn, Melanie] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Skybowl about?

The war has not gone well. With peace only a memory and the future promising defeat, the sunrunners are facing the greatest test of all...for Skybowl has been abandoned to the enemy and High Prince Pol's wife is held prisoner by their Warlord.From Publishers WeeklyThis surprisingly toothless final volume of the Dragon Star fantasy trilogy (after The Dragon Token ) reads more like a melodramatic Russian play than like an epic adventure tale. Pol, sorcerer and High Prince of the Desert, must come to terms with his fanatical cousin Andry, High Lord of Goddess Keep, so the two can pool their magic and influence to defeat a barbarian horde that threatens their people. While Pol and Andry strike an uneasy truce in Pol's castle, surrounded by the intrigues and agonizing of their friends and relations, far away the High Warlord of the barbarians holds Pol's wife and child hostage. The major characters languish passively in their lush surroundings while the reader learns of desperate battles for survival through occasional off-stage reports, a device that makes the entire conflict seem unreal. Rawn writes fluidly and creates reasonably complete characters, but there's not enough action to j

Who reads Skybowl?

Author

Melanie Rawn [Rawn, Melanie]

Publisher

Tor

Published

1993

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction