Nights of Villjamur

Name: Nights of Villjamur
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Charan Newton
ISBN: 9781400187607

Author: Mark Charan Newton

Series: Legends of the Red Sun #1

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 16 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

An ice age strikes a chain of islands, and thousands come to seek sanctuary at the gates of Villjamur: a city of ancient spires and bridges, a place where banshees wail the deceased, cultists use forgotten technology for their own gain, and where, further out, the dead have been seen walking across the tundra.

When the Emperor commits suicide, his elder daughter, Rika, is brought home to lead the Jamur Empire, but the sinister Chancellor plans to get rid of her and claim the throne for himself.

Meanwhile, a senior investigator in the city inquisition must solve the high-profile and savage murder of a city politician while battling evils within his own life, and a handsome and serial womanizer manipulates his way into the imperial residence with a hidden agenda.

When reports are received that tens of thousands of citizens are dying in a bizarre genocide on the northern islands of the Empire, members of the elite Night Guard are sent to investigate. It seems that, in this land under a red sun, the long winter is bringing more than just snow.

About Mark Charan Newton

Mark Charan Newton has worked as an editor for the imprint Black Flame and helped to create Solaris, a mass market, original science fiction, fantasy, and horror imprint. He lives in Nottingham, UK, and Nights of Villjamur is his first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on September 27, 2011

EH? EH! it took a while for my feelings of annoyance and disdain to really flourish. unlike the last travesty of a novel that i gave up on, there was at first some intriguing world-building that kept my attention. and so i made excuses for the incredible weaknesses apparent on the first couple pages......more

Goodreads review by Liviu on July 23, 2014

Superb book - epic fantasy debut of Mark Newton who has published one small press sf novel The Reef before. Under the Red Sun, the long-awaited Freeze is coming and presumed to last for some decades at least and the Villjamur archipelago Empire centered on its capital with the same name is prepari......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 29, 2009

Imagine a book that reads like Joe Abercrombie, set in a Jack Vance-like Dying Earth and written with characters the equal of Moorcock and Mieville. Too good to be true? This book might just meet your expectations. The novel is mainly set in Villjamur, an enormous city, set on a world where the weak......more

Goodreads review by Dee on May 03, 2012

Yeah, ditched it at page 166. Reasons, from the ones that caused most aggravation to the ones that are actually serious problems: - Words used wrong. As in "mortification" at finding more stairs at the end of a long climb. (Look, I find my personal level of fitness embarrassing too, but that's not w......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 25, 2014

Right, I checked out the ratings on this before I started it, saw it was getting 3 and 4 stars more than 5 stars. can see why this is happening, its a first book but written very well without the common mistake new authors do like waffle on about descriptions. The author keeps the suspense going with......more