Reap the East Wind

· Simon and Schuster
4.0
5 reviews
Ebook
300
Pages

About this ebook

It has ended. It begins again. In Kavelin, Lady Nepanthe's new life with the wizard Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne — under their thumb. In Shinsan, a pig-farmer's son takes command of Eastern Army, while Lord Kuo faces plots in his council and a suicide attack of two million Matayangans on his border. But in the desert beyond the Dread Empire, a young victim of the Great War becomes the Deliverer of an eons-forgotten god, chosen to lead the legions of the dead. And the power of his vengeance will make a world's schemes as petty as dust, blown wild in the horror that rides the east wind. This volume marks the beginning of the end. Reap the East Wind is the first step on the road to the long-delayed final chapter of Glen Cook's legendary Dread Empire series.

Ratings and reviews

4.0
5 reviews
Kamas Kirian
February 6, 2016
Perhaps if I was more familiar with the series it would have come across as a better read. But, having this as the introduction to the fantasy world Glen Cook created I didn't enjoy it. The only character that I cared for was Lord Ssu-ma, General of one of the antagonist armies. Ethrian didn't seem believable as a leader (perhaps previous books had back story on his education?), the 400 year old wizard came off as a petulant child, the women (other than Mist) seemed weak and not overly intelligent, and the politics was uninteresting. This isn't a long book and it still took me a week to drag myself through it. There was some good groundwork for an interesting world in Shinsan, and perhaps that was explored in other books. But, as a stand alone book, I can't recommend it to anyone. The ebook was formatted well with no obvious spelling or grammatical errors.

About the author

Glen Cook is the author of dozens of novels of fantasy and science fiction, including The Black Company, The Garret Files, Instrumentalities of the Night, and the Dread Empire series. Cook was born in 1944 in New York City. He attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 1970, where he met his wife, Carol. “Unlike most writers, I have not had strange jobs like chicken plucking and swamping out health bars. Only full-time employer I’ve ever had is General Motors.” He currently makes his home in St. Louis, Missouri.

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