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The war of Honce drags on, and the roads and seas are littered with bodies. To everyone’s stunned disbelief, Yeslnik the Fool has tipped the war’s scales in his favor. The reign of the newly self-appointed King Yeslnik is already distinguished as the most bloody and merciless in Honce history.
Trapped, Dame Gwydre and Father Artolivan concoct a desperate plot to join forces with Laird Ethelbert, the lesser of two vicious evils. But Ethelbert’s paid assassins slew Jameston Sequin and nearly did the same to Bransen.
Embittered by it all, Bransen seeks to extricate himself from the selfish goals of all of combatants. But in an odd twist of fate and crossed loyalties, Bransen sees in his old nemesis, Bannagran--the Bear of Honce and the man who slew his adoptive father - a darker image of his own heart. Allies and battle lines become tangled, motives indistinguishable as old friends become enemies and old enemies become allies.
- Sales Rank: #1333893 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Tor Books
- Published on: 2010-08-17
- Released on: 2010-08-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.56" h x 1.53" w x 6.37" l, 1.41 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 448 pages
- ISBN13: 9780765317919
- Condition: New
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From Publishers Weekly
This final installment in the Saga of the First King series brings readers back to Honce, Salvatore's heroic fantasy locale. The war between wily old Laird Ethelbert and sadistic young King Yeslnik rages on with almost too many characters for comfort. Bransen the Highwayman, defeated by the mystic woman warrior Affwin Wi, feels his life is pointless and slopes home to his wife, while former monk Cormack struggles to broker a new alliance between old enemies. Salvatore piles interminable grisly action upon nefarious conniving, centering Honce's only hope on the Bear, Laird Bannagran, whose courage in battle and "some measure of honor" at last give Bransen a new sense of purpose and Honce, the decent rulers its suffering people deserve. This long fable of good and evil, spiked with blood-and-guts combat, closes the series with a hint at generational continuation--though readers may find new permutations of his faux medieval sex-and-violence hard to digest. (Aug.)
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From Booklist
In this fifth volume of the Corona saga, the war in Honce has brought Yelinik the Fool to the throne. He has promptly started killing everybody who looks cross-eyed at him. This drives Dame Gwindre and Father Artolivan to seek an alliance with Laird Ethelbet, although he is at blood feud with their friend Bransen Gaibond. He in turn washes his hands of them (for now) and seeks alliance with one of his old enemies, the dark mage known as the Bear of Honce. All of this shifting of alliances at a breakneck pace may slightly confuse new readers, but followers from the beginning will enjoy themselves. Salvatore’s career has already taken him from entertaining game-related fantasy to state-of-the-art high fantasy and he hasn’t even finished this saga! --Roland Green
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"Imposing." - Publishers Weekly."
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Good but a little lackluster
By Wooslini
I'm not going to write what the book is about because if you should already know from the other books in the series. However, I will tell you what I thought about the book itself as compared to the others.
I thought The Ancient was the best in the series. Great storyline, plenty of action and a great ending. The second book, The Dame, was more of a political book than an action one with action sequences few and far between. The character development was very good and it was a good read.
The Bear continues exactly where The Dame left off. It is even more of a political book than the previous two. Some of the main characters from the first two books are almost completely left out and take a sidestep to other characters. Some of it came off as if Salvatore got bored with a few of the characters and decided to disregard them. While the story still prominently features Bransen Garibond, the other main characters from The Ancient might as well have not been in this book at all and are certainly not pertinent to the story, with the exception of Gwydre obviously. That part was a bit disappointing.
Without giving anything away, I also felt that the ending came off as very rushed. I got the feeling that Salvatore hit a deadline and needed to get started on his next book. The ending was very rushed and some scenes came off as if he just needed to end it quickly. It cheapened the series for me quite a bit.
If you've read the other books in this series, then of course, this book is a must read and certain parts of it are highly enjoyable. But, all in all, the ending came off as very rushed. Is it worth reading? Yes. Could it have been a bit better? Yes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic fiction from the world of Corona
By Doc
The Bear gives us Salvatore's latest story from his epic fantasy world of Corona, the last tale in his Saga of the First King.
War continues to rage across the nation of Honce, with two lairds and one dame vying for a single throne controlling all the independent-minded territories. Ethelbert in his southern city and his ties to the Middle Eastern-flavored nation of Behr, Yselnik the coward with little true fire for anything but undeserved power, and Gwydre of the northern territory of Vanguard. These three vie for control of the nation's fate, but there are other lairds with designs on power. Milwellis and his father Panlamaris of Palmaristown harbor their own desires and hatreds, unwilling to accept one leader but able to compromise with another for political expedience. The Abellican Church, such a prominent figure in the original series in this world, also plays a part, having insisted on neutrality early in the war and being labelled as cowards and traitors by the various powers.
The Bear takes up exactly where The Dame (the prior book in the series) left off. The heroic Highwayman, defiant of all sides and wanting independence for himself and his family more than anything, has lost his legacy and his heart and has only despair. He encounters evidence of the brutality of war, visited by both sides upon all in their path including innocent children, and finds a renewed disgust for the warring factions and the consequences suffered by the innocent peasants. Ignoring his own sense, he is captured by one who previously spared his life, the Laird Bannagran (which readers of the series might hopefully have recognized his nickname, The Bear, as significant in the conflict since the books set in future of Corona name the nation as Honce-the-Bear, not just Honce...) a cruel and brutal fighter with a peculiar sense of honor. Seeking safety for his family and vengeance upon those who defeated him in the closing of The Dame, Bransen the Highwayman compromises and joins Bannagran, in turn serving under Yselnik. Both the would-be king and the Highwayman hate one another with fervent passion.
The Church is under siege by the forces of Palmaristown for their refusal to bend their knee to Yselnik. The formidable monks repelled the troops' assault in The Dame, but now they are further cut off and siege engines are being constructed to crack open the protective shell of St. Mere Abelle.
Don't forget the powries, who launched a stealthy nighttime assault on Palmaris in The Dame. The powries escalate their part in the conflict after the treatment of powrie prisoners by the Palmaris garrison, seeking and offering no quarter to any humans on any side. The blame for the powrie assault is laid by Laird Panlamaris at the feet of Dame Gwydre, cementing his desire to kill her and the monks with whom she shelters in St. Mere Abelle. Gwydre, cut off from her people in Vanguard, has dispatched a team to negotiate with Ethelbert to oppose Yselnik in exchange for her Queenship.
Alliances of convenience seem to be the primary feature of this book, with so many being seemingly in opposition to the established character beliefs and behaviors. That they are so willing to forego their path shows the powerful effect of the war upon the rulers as well as the peasants, seeking primarily an end to the death and misery even at the expense of their pride.
Salvatore excels again with his plotting and especially with the dynamic fight scenes. However, this book does not give much new to the series that readers have not seen before. Aside from the about faces that so many of the characters make in regards to their alliances, the story reads much the same as prior books in the series. As the prior books in the Saga of the First King, the land of Honce is much more brutal and unforgiving than in the initial series on Corona, but the underlying means of survival and success are the same. This is a great book and a wonderful capstone to the Saga, but it's not as great as some of Salvatore's earlier efforts in this world of his creation.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
deep political fantasy
By A Customer
Honce has been at war for years as two rivals battle for the throne with each indifferent to the plight of peasants trapped in the deadly combat. Self-anointed King Yeslnik the Fool flourishes on blood and guts from the unmerciful war while his chief opponent Laird Ethelbert is perhaps slightly less inclined towards violence causing collateral damage.
Yeslnik's other major opposition comes from Dame Gwydre of Vanguard, who cares about the people, but is somewhat helpless as she is trapped inside the Church of St. Mere Abelle with the mystic monks; though due to magic jewels and the swordsmen, they are safe. She considers an alliance with Ethelbert, whom she deems is the lesser of two evils, but his assassins murdered Jameston Sequin and attempted to kill Bransen Garibond the Highwayman.
Bransen opts out as he is bone wary of war. He intends to takes his pregnant wife and leaves but he meets Gwydre who tries to help the beleaguered people. Instead of vanishing, he escorts her to meet the king's general Bannagran, the Bear of Honce to see if between them they can bring peace.
The final tale in the epic First King saga (see The Highwayman, The Ancient and The Dame) is a rousing winner as R.A. Salvatore continues to effortlessly blend magic and medieval type warfare inside an action-packed military-political fantasy. The key cast is powerfully drawn as betrayal and expedient shifting alliances between enemies is the norm. This series is one of the best over the past few years because of the deep look at political fantasy in a kingdom at constant civil war.
Harriet Klausner
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