Destiny: Child of the Sky - Hardcover

Haydon, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312867506 ISBN 13: 9780312867508

Verlag: Tor Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

To stand against the F'dor--an ancient, vile being intent on destroying the world--a fellowship has been forged: Rhapsody, a Singer of great talent and beauty; Achmed, an assassin with unearthly talents; and Grunthor, a giant of jolly disposition and lethal skill with weapons.

Driven by prophetic visions, the three know that time is running short, know that they must find their elusive enemy before his darkness consumes them all. But after their final, brutal confrontation with the F'dor, their world crosses the threshold of disaster and faces utter oblivion. The action reaches a fevered pitch, achieving a crescendo of tragedy, love, and triumph of human spirit over world-shattering cataclysm.

With death at hand and the world crumbling at their feet, these three will finally discover their true Destiny.

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Elizabeth Haydon first began writing in the fourth grade. Writing a play was one option in a history assignment so, along with a couple of friends, she put on a fairly awful play she had written which was called The Clue in the Diary. Writing fiction became a dream at that point. She took courses in college, but didn't believe she would be able to make a living from it.
She had read C.S. Lewis as a young child, J.R.R. Tolkien as an older one, and some fantasy in college, but had lost touch with the field after that. She was working in educational publishing in 1994 when she met up with an editorial friend and mentor in New Orleans at the American Library Association conference. He asked her to write for him a fantasy that might cross over to other genres and contain some of their shared mutual interests: medieval music, history, anthropology, and herbalism among others. Since they had been drinking Dixie Blackened Voodoos, she was initially hesitant to take on the project, worried that he might have been a bit tipsy when he suggested it. But when it became clear he really wanted her to do it, The Symphony of Ages was born.

These novels have made numerous "Best of the Year" as well as national bestseller lists. The Romantic Times called it "an epic saga worthy of Eddings, Goodkind & Jordan". A harpist and madrigal singer, Elizabeth Haydon lives on the East Coast with her husband and three children, where she is writing fantasy novels for both The Symphony of Ages for adults and the Adventures of Ven Polypheme for children.

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Called across time to fulfill her destiny, the harpist Rhapsody joins with the Firbolg king Achmed and his giant companion Grunthor to attempt to fight the powerful and elusive F'dor, a demon-born danger that threatens the fabric of existence. As the three champions' path grows more perilous, they learn to use the special gifts alluded to in ancient prophecies. Haydon's conclusion to her "Rhapsody" trilogy (Rhapsody, Prophecy) blends Celtic lore with Asian myth to produce a world both strange and hauntingly familiar. A good choice for fantasy collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Following Rhapsody: Child of Blood (2001) and Prophecy: Child of Earth (2000), Haydon concludes her high fantasy trilogy featuring the beautiful skysinger Rhapsody, who generates magic from music, with a dark, cataclysmic book filled with almost constant action. With the evil Rakshas destroyed in volume two, Rhapsody and her two shady half-breed sidekicks, clairvoyant assassin Achmed and the jolly green giant Grunthor, undertake a quest for the blood of the Rakshas' children, which they hope will help them solve the mystery of the hidden demon F'dor, the creator of the murderous Rakshas. Wielding her fire sword, Rhapsody summons starfire and metaphysical music for her final confrontation with the demonic force intent on world destruction. Though obviously inspired by music theory, Norse and Celtic folklore, and seemingly by such authors as Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Patricia A. McKillip, Anne McCaffrey and Palmer Brown (Cheerful), the author uses a fluid writing style to build a world uniquely and compellingly her own. In this shimmering symphony of exhaustive (though not exhausting) detail, epic myths, music and magic intertwine in a resounding fugal crescendo. Haydon fans sorry to see the end of the trilogy can take heart in knowing that the Rhapsody saga's vast historical timeline contains plenty of unexplored epochs and eras ripe for future book treatment. (Sept. 1) Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in perpetuity.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

To conclude the sweeping high-fantasy trilogy begun and continued in Rhapsody: Child of Blood (1999) and Prophecy: Child of Earth (2000), Rhapsody, Achmed, and Gunther, the three of the Prophecy, carry out their roles as saviors of the land by gathering up the demon-spawned children, ridding them of demon blood, and using that blood to track the demon. At the same time, Rhapsody persuades the factions of the Lirin to reunite and becomes their monarch. After a horrific battle in which Rhapsody, Achmed, and Gunther obliterate the demon, Rhapsody is reunited with her soulmate, Ashe, and sounds the long-lost Cymrian horn, summoning all the Cymrian line for a climactic battle with an ancient dragon, the reunification of the land, and Rhapsody's self-healing. Meridion, the time editor who has been changing events throughout the trilogy, also realizes his destiny as the child whose soul was conceived eons ago in the land where he brought Rhapsody and Ashe together and set them on their inevitable course. Destiny so meshes with the preceding volumes that rereading them seems almost mandatory for fully enjoying the nuances and effects of Meridion's time editing. Haydon has gathered and woven the threads of her story into a carefully patterned whole. Complex but extremely satisfying. Sally Estes
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312867506
• ISBN 13: 9780312867508
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560
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