In a Time of Treason
The Tales of Durand, Book Two
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Publisher Description
For the first time in trade paperback, In the Eye of Heaven, book one of David Keck's highly acclaimed, gritty epic fantasy trilogy, the Tales of Durand.
After fourteen years of grueling training for knighthood, fate snatched Durand Col's inheritance from him. He's willing to sell his sword to the highest bidder to forge a name for himself in an unforgiving, brutal, and bloody world.
Durand will commit atrocities he never imagined.
Dark conspiracies run through the kingdom—the oaths keeping long-banished monsters a bay begin to unravel. it may fall to Durand to save the world of Man . . .
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Equal parts historical fiction and epic medieval fantasy, the second volume of Keck's trilogy (after 2006's In the Eye of Heaven) finds heroic liegeman Durand Col and his liege, Lord Lamoric, invited to the court of King Ragnal to reaffirm their homage oaths along with other noblemen. They get there late, only to find that the paranoid ruler has imprisoned the earlier arrivals and begun a bloody campaign to eradicate traitors. Fleeing, Col finds himself once again battling the opportunistic duke of Yrlac, but the greatest treason of all is perhaps Col's hopeless love for Lamoric's wife. Combining meticulous detail and grand-scale storytelling, Col's mud-covered, flea-ridden adventure succeeds in large part by avoiding the conventions and clich s that doom so many comparable fantasy epics to mediocrity. The less than satisfying ending, however, isn't so much a conclusion as a pause before what should be a momentous third and final novel.
Customer Reviews
Clumsy and bogged by boring love story
Deorwen (love interest and duchess) follows Durand (properly indestructible main character) through a series of black magical battles and sieges, which doesn’t seem to rub bad on the evil army, although the good army sure doesn’t like the hellscape.
Where is the story going? Idk. 88% of the way thru, I have no desire to finish and watch Durand get promoted again.