Between Two Fires
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4.5 • 367 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller
Enter a darker age with New York Times bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf.
And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”
The year is 1348.
Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith?
She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon.
There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.
As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.
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Customer Reviews
Of fires and hearth.
Though I didn’t always understand what I was reading, a lot of old and French words throughout, I enjoyed the read immensely.
Simply put, it’s an amazing book
I couldn’t stop thinking about it when I put it down at any given time.
Disorganized and Misleading
Terribly misleading synopsis. Two stars for the descriptions, which do a good job at making certain scenes really feel medieval. Other than that, this book was disjointed and unclear in its plot. I never DNF books and I wanted to, just a few chapters in, but decided to push through. There was no payoff.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
The characters are all haunted, so I thought there’d be a redemption arc for them. There is for one of them - the horrible, unlikeable character Thomas, and the other one turns out to be an angel (or maybe Jesus himself?) I thought this was going to be a medieval horror but it’s more cosmic fantasy, with no real explanation of why or how anything is happening. Maybe that’s the point. If so, I missed it.