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Laddar... The Heirs of Hammerfell (Darkover) (utgåvan 1990)av Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is supposedly set in the chaotic period before the establishment of the Comyn Cuncil and the Pact, when large numbers of little kingdoms competed ruthlessly for power. Hammerfell is one little kingdom which is ruthlessly conquered by another, Storn. The wife of a Hammerfell ruler escapes with her twin sons, but one becomes separated from her and they grow up separately. Bradley said this was consciously based on "The Corsican Brothers and to me it is a badly digested mix of earthlyquasi- historical swashbuckling fiction and Darkover. This is a pity, as normally I love Darkover. Rascar, duc d'Hammerfell, vient d'épouser Erminie, sa jeune pupille. Ils viennent d'avoir deux fils jumeaux, Conn et Alastair. L'avenir va-t-il leur sourire ? Non car les Hammerfell et les Storn, depuis cinq générations, se livrent une vendetta sans merci dont nul ne saurait plus dire la cause. Rascar succombe à son tour dans l'attaque de son château. Un vieux serviteur sauve Conn et s'enfuit avec lui dans la forêt. L'enfant grandit, rêvant de vengeance. Que sont devenus sa mère et son frère ? Sans doute ont-ils été victimes des Storn eux aussi. Mais Conn a le laran ; a vingt ans, assailli par des rêves et des visions, il comprend qu'Alastair n'est peut-être pas mort. Deux frères jumeaux peuvent communiquer à distance ; alliés, ils seraient invincibles, et les Storn sentiraient le poids de leur colère. Allons, Conn doit partir pour Thendara la grand'ville ; c'est là-bas, il le sent, que le destin l'attend...
Les héritiers d'Hammerfell est un roman à deux voix, inégal et quelque peu décevant du fait de la médiocrité de la deuxième moitié. C'est une lecture agréable, mais sans plus. Voilà un livre relativement court, plus léger que les autres, moins tragique... Il ne fait pas de particulièrement grandes révélations, mais il est agréable à lire. Intéressant, sans plus.
Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books. Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others -- entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This felt more like an Irish ballad rather than a Darkover book. It's a fairly predictable story, short and wrapped up with a romance HEA. The character arcs are jumbled, especially Alastair and the lord of Storn, who both seem to be all over the place as rulers and with the feud. Definitely one of the weakest books of the series. ( )