An interesting book. It could have been really good but Williams prose can often be slightly confusing. The concepts behind the pattern-based magic were never really explained. The best character, by far, is Eyul the Emperor's-knife. When the Pattern Carriers are described, it is often from a per...
Sarmin blinked. He had been half in dreams, wondering at his last night’s vision. Though tied to his bed he had traveled far, to speak with a wise woman of the mountain clans while Yrkmen swarmed the passes, bound for Fryth. He recalled none of it from Histories, the book that had been ruined. No...
His first day marking the palace workers was halfway done, and his second night in a high palace bed awaited him at the end of it, though he dreaded closing his eyes. His first night among those scented silks had brought him no sleep. Visions of his own burned city alongside a ruined Nooria kept ...