"Holly Lisle - Secret Texts 4 - Vincalis the Agitator" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lisle Holly)

The Hars Ticlarim was an empire built on the suffering of others. Its builders wanted
it that way. They didn’t want to take responsibility for their own spells; they didn’t
want to limit what they could do merely to defense. More magic use meant that they
could expand the empire, or keep in line the parts of it already acquired. But what
wizard would use magic if he had to take the cost of the spell from his own flesh and
blood and bones and life? Why would he do that, when he could channel both the
power to fuel his spell and the rebound from it into caged creatures that he had
convinced himself were not truly human? Who was going to overturn three thousand
years of “this is the way we do things”?

Praise for Holly Lisle’s The Secret Texts

“A grand adventure.”

—Locus

“Tension-filled . . . a worthy successor to the works of Tolkien. . . . The pacing is fast,
the dialogue believable. The writing is poetic and lyrical, celebrating all the joys of
living.”

—VOYA

“Rousing.”

—Science Fiction Chronicle

“Carefully crafted and well thought out . . . wonderful.”

—SF Site


BOOKS BY HOLLY LISLE

The Secret Texts Trilogy
Diplomacy of Wolves
Vengeance of Dragons
Courage of Falcons


Available from Warner Aspect




For Matthew



And to
Betsy Mitchell