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Ages
lost have borne a time of marvel and achievement as the Quadra
Order harnessed the teachings of both cold science and arcane
magic. Established was a joint rule by the Order, their history
books quoting past actions to be the direct will of Heaven's
favour. Those who disputed this vaunted belief were thrown
to a life filled with the scaring glower of the golden sight.
Those
shunned then gave their prayers to the night, and a maelstrom
of destruction answered. The Order rattles, fearful of what
occurred, never knowing the actuality of the threat until
He declared war on them all. The Knightlord of the Void. Kain,
surpassed death to realise the birthright he knew was his.
He, an arbiter of darkness, was to stand atop the world as
the sole ruler, and unify both the Heavens and the Abyss all
about...
If
you read the above synopsis and can make any sense of what
the book is about... then you are a better linguist than me.
I
have to come clean here. This is the first book that I have
failed to read to the end. In fact, I couldn't make it past
the first chapter. And so, for that fact alone I have decided
to give this book an average mark. I can't slate it, because
I have no idea what it is really about.
I
found Age of the Twilight: Ascension to be extremely
heavy going - and certainly not the sort of book you will
want to settle down with for a bit of easy reading. The author's
sentence construction is amazing to say the least. It's almost
as though a competent writer has gone through his own masterpiece
and changed words by using a Thesaurus at random intervals.
This
book really, seriously, honestly should have had an Editor.
But, because this is a Publish America (vanity publishing
at its best) book, it hasn't had one. That's not to say that
this sort of publisher doesn't produce quality material. We
have recently reviewed two excellent books by this publisher
- Twilight and The Transfer.
Bit
of an ambiguous review, I know. But would I personally buy
this? Nope, I'm afraid I wouldn't
Nick
Smithson
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