World Fall: Book 2 of the Seven Circles Trilogy (Seven Circles Trilogy, Bk. 2) - Softcover

Niles, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441008550 ISBN 13: 9780441008551

Publisher: Ace Trade, 2001

Synopsis

In the sequel to Circle at Center, Mirandel, the druid priestess, returns from her long banishment to the human world to once again confront the evil that threatens her circle and must somehow find an army strong enough to defend her mystic realm. Original.

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About the Author

Douglas Niles is the author of the Watershed Trilogy and co-creator of TSRs "Dragonlance" series with Margaret Weis.

Reviews

Fans of the first book in this high fantasy trilogy, 2000's Circle at Center, will welcome this sequel, set in the realm of the Seven Circles with its host of mythological creatures dwarves, elves, griffons, harpies, centaurs, giants, pegasi, dragons, trolls, golems, even angels who in their exotic variety contrast with the novel's formulaic human characters. One soon picks out the good guys from the bad. As 19th-century vintage airships float in the sky above the city of Nayve, Miradel, a human druidess who has lived many lives, prepares with her warrior husband, Natac, to battle Karlath-Fayd of Loamar, the Fifth Circle, who has created a great rift ("Riven Deep") dividing Nayve. The evil Karlath-Fayd is planning to conquer all the circles with armies of the dead, many from earthly wars. Meanwhile, in an interlude drawn from the American Civil War, a Nayvean woman uses a magical device to observe a Confederate soldier with whom she falls in love. When the soldier is bayoneted, she wafts him, surprised but happy, to her bed. Niles (the Watershed Trilogy) regularly repeats a Yogi Berra-ish metaphor, "the direction that is neither metal nor wood," much as Lord Dunsany used "beyond the fields we know" in The King of Elfland's Daughter. More familiarly, he also tosses in Tolkienian gems of power. A surfeit of action and characters will tire those who prefer more serious, thought-provoking fantasy, but others will be left wondering how it will all turn out in volume three.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Though her actions saved the realm of the Seven Circles, the druid priestess Mirandel achieved victory by breaking her order's sacred laws. Newly returned from her lengthy exile in the human realms, she finds the safety of her world threatened once again and must use even more drastic measures to protect her universe. Set in a universe of many dimensions and peopled with a variety of fantastic creatures as well as heroes and villains from a several of Earth's historic eras, this sequel to Circle at Center provides a fast-paced tale of epic adventure that belongs in most fantasy collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ace Trade
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441008550
• ISBN 13: 9780441008551
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368