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Salute the Dark
Salute the Dark
Salute the Dark
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Salute the Dark

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Salute the Dark is the fourth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. As spymaster Stenworld makes a stand in his home city, others must chose where their loyalties lie.

All must face the end of days . . .

The mighty Wasp armies are on the march. And with war imminent, spymaster Stenwold must finally separate allies from false friends. He knows the Empire won’t stop until its flag hangs over Collegium, Stenwold's home city. Tisamon the Weaponsmaster favours a more direct strategy – facing the Wasp Emperor himself, with a blade in his hand. He’d be abandoning both friends and family to do so. Yet is he driven by honour, or being manipulated by something far more sinister?

With the Shadow Box in his possession at last, Uctebri can begin his dark ritual. The Wasp-kinden’s Emperor believes this will grant him immortality. However, Uctebri has his own plans – for the Emperor and the Empire.

Salute the Dark is followed by the fifth book in the Shadows of the Apt series, The Scarab Path.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPan Macmillan
Release dateFeb 5, 2010
ISBN9780330521260
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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. He subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and has trained in stage-fighting. He's the author of Children of Time, the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Sunday Times bestseller Shards of Earth.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I was very conflicted about this rating. The book has a couple of issues I found rather annoying and one issue I found baffling. On the other hand the book has an unbelievably good ending section (last 6 or so chapters) which I simply could not stop reading.

    If 4 out of 5 is 80%, then I would rate this book around 87%.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Surprisingly satisfying novel. It felt like the end of the series, even though I see two more scheduled for publication.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The end of the first cycle closing several themes and resolving the conflict. Gripping
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book feels like the end of a cycle. I'm please I saw it through but sadly won't be picking up the next book in the next cycle in this world if it does come.The setting is interesting, but the challenges to my belief in the differences between the Apt and Inapt continue to hugely undermine my willingness to come back.Add to that a story which decides, in a suitably Russian novel fashion given the author's surname, to end it all by killing just about everyone and only keeping enough of them alive to show how much that hurts too... well it's a shame.In particular, the almost Wasp-kinden attitude to the Princess' intrigue, which we're allowed to see is happening but about which we are denied any knowledge was the final straw for me when it turns out to be central to resolving the plot without the mosquitoes taking over the world... Why?

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