The Black Khan
Book Two of the Khorasan Archives
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
August 6, 2018
This second installment of Khan’s Khorasan Archives feminist fantasy series (after The Bloodprint) continues First Oralist Arian’s quest for the Bloodprint, the codex promising to overthrow the Talisman, a male-dominated, Taliban-like regime enslaving women and obliterating literacy throughout Khorasan. Arian; Sinnia, her fellow Companion of Hira; and Arian’s beloved Daniyar, the Silver Mage, are separately trapped and brutally tortured by Talisman members. They break free, unite, and seek the Bloodprint, held by Rukh, the Black Khan and potential Dark Mage, at Ashfall, the intrigue-infested capital that’s under siege by Talisman forces. Bitter betrayals, testosterone-fueled male rivalry, erotic temptations, and dizzying shifts in allegiance abound. The author supplies a lush atmosphere based on Middle Eastern traditions, but her characters flounder in facile and often contradictory motivations. A six-page glossary of often confusing terminology can’t make up for foggy and distracting linguistic stretches such as Arian’s “disheveled” face. These diminish Khan’s chief message: Arian succeeds by rejecting men who expect her to give up her individuality and her sworn duty. The challenging language makes it hard to get into this otherwise interesting tale. Agent: Danielle Burby, Hannigan Salky Getzler.
October 1, 2018
The story picks up the journey of Arian, Sinnia, and the Bloodprint document where the first book in the quartet, The Bloodprint? (2017), left off. In the fight against the cruel Talisman, a group that subjugates and enslaves women and destroys knowledge by burning texts and books, the Companions of Hira, women fighters who use a sacred language for magic, must move forward with their mission to find important books that will help them combat the spread of ignorance. Arian, Sinnia, and the Silver Mage have been taken captive and are controlled through inflicted pain, but their mission never waivers. The Black Khan, prince of a neighboring kingdom, is an unlikely ally for the Companions of Hira and the Silver Mage, as he is only interested in his own ends, but the Companions are prepared for him. Khan has created a rich, well-crafted world that will appeal to readers of S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass (2017) or Erika Johansen's The Queen of the Tearling? (2014).(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
June 1, 2018
In Bloodprint, mystery writer Khan's first visit to fantasy, the Companions of Hira formed to counter the cruel, patriarchal Talisman. Here, its plans have gone astray. With a 35,000-copy first printing.
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