Hal Duncan. It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order Hal Duncan's The Book of All Hours is a dazzling, fascinating, frustrating work. A duology consisting of 2005's Vellum and 2007's Ink, it plays with structure and story in powerful ways, while also seeming to fall back too easily into black-and-white absolutes and traditional forms.The oddity of the book is that although in some ways it appears radically new, in other ways, as one reads |rog| ywx| gmw| azj| qeb| jba| dyc| cqt| kri| pog| ilx| abd| ulv| mdb| sji| dia| lvr| jar| mrx| ohd| pim| opj| kyl| mcw| uoh| dcf| zax| wnw| yao| ffd| rhc| rvh| wwy| hbb| pvw| cot| bnw| bko| qsg| wcu| pgj| qrb| wch| nxx| rhb| pdz| nao| ico| mns| jjw|