"BRAVEHEART meets THE LORD OF THE RINGS" is how one Hollywood producer describes this epic saga.
THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY
***A Brief Synopsis***
Kruzurk Makshare, as a young magician's apprentice, first encountered the villain, Seed of Cerberus, who was studying with Kruzurk under the master magician, Merlin. While trying to stop the Seed from stealing Merlin's tools of making, Kruzurk is cursed for life by the vindictive Seed.
As a boon to the spirit of Merlin, Kruzurk enacts a clever ruse to bring down the Seed. The plan involves a young highlander, Daynin McKinnon, who is unaware of his role in the great deception. Daynin is torn between his desire to seek riches to rebuild his ancestral home and his duty to his grandfather Ean. Desire wins out, temporarily, leading Daynin on a hair-raising adventure where he meets and falls in love with the beautiful and cunning Sabritha Kilcullen. Together, they are dragged into Kruzurk's plot to destroy the Seed. Along the way, others join them in the campaign, also unaware of the part they are to play in a nightmare of whirlwind escapades many will not survive.
Ultimately, the Seed is bested, leaving Daynin, Sabritha and Kruzurk to divide the spoils left in the ruins of Blackgloom. Daynin must then overcome a host of almost insurmountable enemies, objects and circumstances to return the Blackgloom bounty and Sabritha to his clan's ancestral home on the island of Rhum. There, he hopes to rebuild the family keep, kindle a romance with Sabritha and hold his ground against all comers.
But first, a great chase, an even greater escape and a tremendous running battle ensues, stretching across most of Scotland and the high seas and ending at the walls of Kinloch Keep. At every turn, Daynin is threatened with the loss of the bounty, his dreams and the future of his clan. He must use every ounce of wit and guile to outthink, outfight or outrun a litany of mortal and mystical adversaries and indeed, eventually change the future of the highlands forever.
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THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY
The Blackgloom Bounty is one of those rambling, picaresque fantasies...in a universe strongly resembling the 10th Century border region of present-day Northern England and Southern Scotland. The story rackets along at a tremendous pace, rather like an amusement park ride or a fiendishly complicated Dungeons and Dragons game. At the end of it you are dumped out with a spinning head and a perhaps not-quite accurate memory of everything that went on, but in no doubt that you and everyone else had a tremendously amusing ride.There is an enormous cast of characters, rushing about, and it was all something to do with curses, stolen inheritances, a stalwart young heir hidden away, a feisty wench, brave warriors, secret tombs, ghosts, wicked noblemen, spells and shape-changing, magic stones and a treasure of wonderful wealth, a sea-monster and then...well, the review would be as long as the book itself if I attempted to do even a short recapitulation. And it wouldn't be anywhere near as amusing.
When young Daynin and his grandfather find a curiously carved stone while plowing their field, they have little idea that it is the legendary Scythian Stone but a wandering magician named Kruzurk Makshare does and with a few brisk preliminaries, Daynin is off and running on the adventure of his life, to find and liberate an enormous treasure, and then to keep hold of it.
The author has concocted an intricate yarn, briskly paced, and in a writing style which...quite frequently sparkles. He also has an ear for conversation... This is the first volume of a projected series, and a worthwhile read for any devotee of the fantasy-adventure genre.
(Review by Sgt. Mom who is a freelance writer blogging at The Daily Brief.)
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The best medieval fantasy I've read since "The Crystal Cave" and the rest of Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy. Posted July 16, 2007 |
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