Exiled: Autumn's Peril
Chronicles of Caleath
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- 4,49 €
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- 4,49 €
Publisher Description
Exiled and driven by guilt and vengeance, Caleath, adept in virtual reality games, finds himself on a world where magic rules. Assassins hunt him, ghosts haunt his nights, a sorcerer covets his knowledge and a beautiful hostage complicates his escape.
Washed ashore from the wreck of the Albatross, tortured in mind and body, Caleath uses his dreaded nanobots in order to survive and reluctantly befriends the young Gwilt Their search for the survey satellite, which could lead Caleath home, unveils the terrifying world of 'a dark soul, black magic and a bloody sword'.
On this perilous journey, an assassin destroys Caleath's healing nanobots, and exiles from his home planet follow his every move. He takes the beautiful Nasith, of the Ferran clan, hostage to keep the assassins at bay, but her presence endangers him more. A sorcerer forces Caleath to aid the Council of Mages when he discovers Caleath carries vital knowledge that could save the Sharyac people from the invading Tarack, a species of giant ants.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The first installment of Australian author Skinner's eight-volume Chronicles of Caleath saga is ambitious but uninspiring grand-scale science fiction cloaked in adventure fantasy. Caleath is a former surveyor of uncharted planets and reigning champion of the Game, a virtual reality competition played by contestants from "over a hundred galaxies." Stranded on a primitive world where magic is real, Caleath must stay alive long enough to escape his planetary confines and track down Ephraim Simpton, a corporate scion who plotted Caleath's demise after being defeated in the Game. But for Caleath, survival is far from easy when assassins track his every move and an invasion of giant alien ants threatens the entire planet. Later plot twists and revelations rouse some excitement but can't make up for two-dimensional characters, superficial world-building, and a story line that verges on superfluity.
