Ceremony
Book Three of the Dark War Trilogy
Night Shade Books · Print & ebook · July 26, 2013
The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill with their minds alone, and of the Grauken, that desperate time when intellect gives way to buried cannibalistic instinct, when meth feeds upon meth.
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- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in a packstead facing winter and multiple threats.
- Themes
- Survival under threat, Loyalty to family and community, Awakening power
- Genres
- Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
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The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill with their minds alone, and of the Grauken, that desperate time when intellect gives way to buried cannibalistic instinct, when meth feeds upon meth.
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For Marika, a young pup of the Packstead, loyal to pack and family, times are dark indeed, for against these foes, the Packstead cannot prevail. But awakening within Marika is a power unmatched in all the world, a legendary power that may not just save her world, but allow her to grasp the stars themselves. From Glen Cook, author of the Black Company and Dread Empire novels. The final book in the Darkwar series.
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in a packstead facing winter and multiple threats.
- For readers drawn to a young protagonist awakening extraordinary power.
Where it sits
| Dark Fantasy | 84% |
|---|---|
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 36% |
| Epic Fantasy | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Fantasy
- Dark Fantasy
- Coming-of-Age
- Authors
- Glen Cook
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- July 26, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Survival under threat · Loyalty to family and community · Awakening power
- Reading lane
- Fantasy