Beware of plot holes
В этом мире люди боятся темноты. И не зря - с приближением ночи с земли поднимается странный туман. Туман, в котором обитают вечно голодные демоны корелинги. Эти твари не страшатся человеческого оружия, и ночами люди могут лишь прятаться за закрытыми дверьми и ставнями, сжимать в руках магические амулеты да молиться, чтобы поскорее взошло солнце. Но юноша Арлен, чью семью когда-то погубили демоны,...
Он боится оружия и женщин. Для нее нет лучшей музыки, чем шум погони и грохот взрывов. Вместе они должны пробраться в самое сердце Общества Феникса, к истокам гениального преступного замысла, иначе вся Англия падет к ногам Феникса... Заметенный на головокружительных приключениях и спецэффектах коктейль из старого доброго викторианского времени и технологий, невиданных для эпохи паровых двигателей!
ЭЛАН. Мир «меча и магии». Здесь обитают бок о бок эльфы и люди, гномы и гоблины. Здесь, на руинах империи, тысячелетия назад созданной таинственным полубогом Новроном, возникли десятки новых королевств, плетущих друг против друга бесконечные политические интриги. Не пора ли прекратить вражду и возродить единую империю? — этот призыв слышен в Элане все чаще и громче. Однако право на объединение нар...
Teyo Verada wants nothing more than to be a shieldmage, wielding arcane energies to protect his people from his world’s vicious diamondstorms. When he’s buried alive in the aftermath of his first real tempest, the young mage’s life is about to end before it can truly begin—until it doesn’t. In a flash, a power he didn’t know he had whisks him away from his home, to a world of stone, glass, and won...
An alternate 1895... . A world where Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace perfected the Difference Engine. Where steam and Tesla-powered computers are everywhere. Where automatons powered by human souls venture out into the sprawling London streets. Where the Ministry, a secretive government agency, seeks to control everything in the name of the Queen. It is in this claustrophobic, paranoid city th...
Book DescriptionRupert didn't especially want to be a prince. And he certainly never asked to be the second son of a royal line that really didn't need a spare. So he was sent out to slay a dragon and prove himself-a quest straight out of legend.
They call it the City of a Hundred Rows. The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights. Having witnessed a murder in a part of the city he should never have been in, Tom, a lowly street-nick, has to run for his life through the City Below, Thaiburley’s unsavoury basement world. Accused o...
Time has passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, led the Araluens to victory against invaders, and Will is now a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy? boring, even?until the king is poisoned. Joined by his friend Alyss, Will is thrown headfirst into an extraordinary adventure propelled by fears of sorcery, and must determine who is trustwort...
Falling in with a roguish doctor, his dwarf attendant and an urchin girl, Theo embarks on an unforgettable adventure in the kingdom of Westmark. An American Book Award, An ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
The king’s orders were clear enough. “Move the tower’s shadow,” he bellowed. “I refuse to deliver my commencement speech from the dark.” As the newly appointed mage to the Crown of Tirlin, Meralda Ovis has no choice but to undertake King Yvin’s ill-conceived task. Tirlin’s first female mage, and the youngest person to ever don the robes of office, Meralda is determined to prove once and for all...
