Mertvyy prints

Luchshaya kniga goda po versii SF sayta. Pyanyaschaya i tomitelnaya, strastnaya i grandioznaya — eto ambitsioznoe prodolzhenie «Ternovogo korolya» Grega Kiza. Kogda legendarnyy Ternovyy korol probudilsya ot svoego sna, na korolevstvo obrushilis tma i uzhas. Beschislennye porozhdeniya nevidannyh chudovisch pokidayut chaschoby i napadayut na krestyan. Epidemiya bezumiya prevratila mirnyh zhiteley v pozhirayuschih plot dikarey. V Eslene ubit korol Uilyam, koroleva Myuriel stala zhertvoy predatelstva, a ih doch Enni bezhit ot ubiyts, zhelayuschih unichtozhit ee semyu. Po pyatam za printsessoy sleduet molodoy rytsar Neyl MekVren, edinstvennyy vernyy soyuznik korolevy, kotoryy poklyalsya spasti Enni. Sama printsessa otpravlyaetsya v opasnyy put k ubezhischu, no po doroge ee podsteregayut lovushki zagovorschikov, ot kotoryh malo kto mozhet uklonitsya. V to zhe vremya shpiony na sluzhbe Prayfeka Hespero, moguschestvennogo klirika, pristupayut k borbe s Ternovym korolem v samom serdtse ego vladeniy. A zhazhduschaya vlasti tserkov, podstegivaemaya misticheskimi sobytiyami, ugrozhaet inkvizitsiey dazhe koroleve. Po mere togo, kak petlya intrig zatyagivaetsya vokrug vsey strany, lichnye sudby i sudba korolevstva budut reshatsya v protivoborstve mezhdu dobrodetelyu i zloboy, vlastyu i magiey.