The Daemon Prism
Published on 27. August 2024
250 pages
978-1-5040-9654-6 (ISBN)
Description
A blind mage teams up with an unlikely ally to save a friend and the world in this quasi-Renaissance epic fantasy adventure by the author of
The Soul Mirror.
Indicted for crimes against the living and the dead, Dante the necromancer has become the most hated man in Sabria. Becoming blind by his enemy's cruel vengeance only exacerbates his situation. These days, his only comfort is time spent with his student, Anne de Vernase, passing his knowledge on to her. But when her family greatly needs her, she must leave Dante.
Then a retired soldier, haunted by powerful dreams, seeks out Dante's help. Seeing a magical puzzle to solve and a chance to redeem himself, Dante offers his services-even though he senses the man's plea hides something far more sinister. Soon the blind mage embarks on a mad journey with an unlikely ally beside him. Together they must rescue a former companion from a hellish demise that could raise a destructive cataclysm greater than any war their world has ever seen...
"An amazingly complex and rewarding story, The Daemon Princeis certain to reward the devoted students of the Collegia Magica trilogy." - Booklist
"Enthralling and not to be missed." - Kirkus Reviews
"This rousing and complex good-against-evil battle concludes Berg's voluminous quasi-Renaissance epic fantasy trilogy ....[Berg's] insight into the nature of human good and evil, the constantly ebbing and flowing relationships among lovers and friends ... consistently raises this novel above sword-and-sorcery routine." - Publishers Weekly
"Filled with action and feeling as if it occurs in a Berg version of the Age of Reason; fans will appreciate this stupendous story." - Alternative Worlds
Indicted for crimes against the living and the dead, Dante the necromancer has become the most hated man in Sabria. Becoming blind by his enemy's cruel vengeance only exacerbates his situation. These days, his only comfort is time spent with his student, Anne de Vernase, passing his knowledge on to her. But when her family greatly needs her, she must leave Dante.
Then a retired soldier, haunted by powerful dreams, seeks out Dante's help. Seeing a magical puzzle to solve and a chance to redeem himself, Dante offers his services-even though he senses the man's plea hides something far more sinister. Soon the blind mage embarks on a mad journey with an unlikely ally beside him. Together they must rescue a former companion from a hellish demise that could raise a destructive cataclysm greater than any war their world has ever seen...
"An amazingly complex and rewarding story, The Daemon Princeis certain to reward the devoted students of the Collegia Magica trilogy." - Booklist
"Enthralling and not to be missed." - Kirkus Reviews
"This rousing and complex good-against-evil battle concludes Berg's voluminous quasi-Renaissance epic fantasy trilogy ....[Berg's] insight into the nature of human good and evil, the constantly ebbing and flowing relationships among lovers and friends ... consistently raises this novel above sword-and-sorcery routine." - Publishers Weekly
"Filled with action and feeling as if it occurs in a Berg version of the Age of Reason; fans will appreciate this stupendous story." - Alternative Worlds
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Carol Berg has lived a large portion of her life in realms of mystery and adventure - Middle Earth, Camelot, Amber, Wonderland, Harry Dresden's Chicago, Jim Chee's New Mexico, Cheltenham race track and the colleges of Oxford, Cold War Berlin, the Welsh borderlands, River Heights, and Marvel's version of Hell's Kitchen. Though she earned a degree in mathematics at Rice University, in part so she wouldn't have to write papers, she took every English course that listed novels on the syllabus, just so she would have time to keep reading. Somewhere in the midst of earning a second degree in computer science at the University of Colorado, a software engineering career, and raising three sons, a friend teased her into exchanging letters written "in character." Once Carol started writing fiction, she couldn't stop. Carol's epic fantasy novels, and those written by her alter ego, Cate Glass, eighteen in all, have earned national and international acclaim, including the Geffen Award, the Prism Award, multiple Colorado Book Awards, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Carol lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains with her Exceptional Spouse, camping, hiking, biking, binge-watching good stuff, and reading.
