Requiem

By Ken Scholes

Ken Scholes’s debut novel, Lamentation, was an event in fantasy. Heralded as a “meszerizing debut novel” by Publishers Weekly, and a “vividly imagined SF-fantasy hybrid set in a distant, postapocalyptic future” by Booklist, the series gained many fans. It was followed by Canticle and Antiphon. Now comes the fourth book in the series, Requiem.Who is the Crimson Empress, and what does her conquest of the Named Lands really mean? Who holds the keys to the Moon Wizard’s Tower?The plots within plots are expanding as the characters seek their way out of the maze of intrigue. The world is expanding as they discover lands beyond their previous carefully controlled knowledge. Hidden truths reveal even deeper truths, and nothing is as it seemed to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Jun 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9780765321305

Ken Scholes

Ken Scholes is the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of multiple novels and short stories. His work has appeared in print since 2000 and includes the Psalms of Isaak series (Lamentation, Canticle, Antiphon) and the Tor.com short story "If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear." Ken's eclectic background includes time spent as a label gun repairman, a sailor who never sailed, a soldier who commanded a desk, a fundamentalist preacher (he got better), a nonprofit executive, a musician and a government procurement analyst. He has a degree in History from Western Washington University. Ken is a native of the Pacific Northwest and makes his home in Hillsboro, Oregon, where he lives with his twin daughters.

Reviews for Requiem

[lastcall_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A haunting book. Go find any book by this author right now.

[m4marya · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Another great book by Joyce. This time around the characters are so messed up, so disfunctional that you cannot help but root for them to make it through, to find the secrets out, to win. Set in a city that I have little knowledge of, Joyce led us on a wonderful mystery filled with religion, love, the supernatural and the stupid things that we do when we are in love. Once again he has me looking at the world in a very different way.

[dagon12 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

While I enjoy Joyce's writing and he usually does a good job, I wasn't too pleased with this novel. Overall the writing was fine and the story was OK and the characters didn't suck, but at the same time there was nothing that pulled me into the story. I was very much an impartial observer who watched as a whiny Tom Webster visits his friend Sharon in Jerusalem. Once there he starts hallucinating and losing his mind. Did I care? Not really. I was more interested in the story behind the Dead Sea Scrolls that were left in his possession. That was a much more engaging plot than dealing with the manifestations of Tom's guilt. Unfortunately we don't get more than a little of the Dead Sea Scrolls; they mostly are there to help personify Tom's hallucinations. This book is not one of Joyce's better works.