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The Mask of Ares
When Ingram and Quester had seen their clients, Lady Victoria Vantage and her young niece Urelle Vantage, safely to their new home, they had thought their work finished, the time come to find new Adventures – despite the not-well-hidden interest between Ingram and Urelle.
Then Ingram receives an impossible message: he, a fugitive and exile from Clan Camp-Bel, is desperately needed by the Clan in distant Aegeia, a thousand miles and more away, for a mission so secret it cannot be included in the recall. And the very night he and Quester set out, Urelle discovers there are assassins already on their trail and rushes to warn them – and following her, Victoria, a retired Adventurer forced once more into the field.
But more is at stake than they can realize, for the ancient Cycle of Aegeia – the living morality play between the Reason of Athena and the Passion of Ares – is in peril of destruction; a monstrous impostor has taken the place of the God of War, and begins to orchestrate an ending to Aegeia itself.
And the false Ares knows that one of the four travelers is the only thing standing between him and the downfall of the gods…
Then Ingram receives an impossible message: he, a fugitive and exile from Clan Camp-Bel, is desperately needed by the Clan in distant Aegeia, a thousand miles and more away, for a mission so secret it cannot be included in the recall. And the very night he and Quester set out, Urelle discovers there are assassins already on their trail and rushes to warn them – and following her, Victoria, a retired Adventurer forced once more into the field.
But more is at stake than they can realize, for the ancient Cycle of Aegeia – the living morality play between the Reason of Athena and the Passion of Ares – is in peril of destruction; a monstrous impostor has taken the place of the God of War, and begins to orchestrate an ending to Aegeia itself.
And the false Ares knows that one of the four travelers is the only thing standing between him and the downfall of the gods…
323 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 15, 2020
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June 18, 2020
Very good addition to Mr. Spoor's Zarathan novels.
If you are a fan of the Balanced Sword trilogy or Paradigms Lost, you will greatly enjoy this book. Very entertaining, and frustrating at the same time. So many hints, so many clues teasing at things yet to come. One downside: I know he had little choice, but I really don't care for (even subdued) cliffhanger endings. It will be a long wait for the concluding novel. Still, thumbs up!
If you are a fan of the Balanced Sword trilogy or Paradigms Lost, you will greatly enjoy this book. Very entertaining, and frustrating at the same time. So many hints, so many clues teasing at things yet to come. One downside: I know he had little choice, but I really don't care for (even subdued) cliffhanger endings. It will be a long wait for the concluding novel. Still, thumbs up!
June 15, 2020
A good beginning to a new series
We get new adventures from new viewpoints in this story.
There are exciting fights, cool magic and strange mysteries.
The characters are good too. I like what I've seen of them so far.
We get new adventures from new viewpoints in this story.
There are exciting fights, cool magic and strange mysteries.
The characters are good too. I like what I've seen of them so far.
April 4, 2021
Ryk Spoor doing what he does best, sword-and-sorcery epic fantasy with stakes as high as they go against an antagonist who ultimately doesn't even take the game that seriously.
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