The Return Of NightFall

by Mickey Zucker Reichert | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0756402018 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingHARRIETwing of Morrow, Georgia USA on 7/26/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by wingHARRIETwing from Morrow, Georgia USA on Monday, July 26, 2004
The Return of Nightfall
Mickey Zucker Reichert
Daw, Sep 2004, $24.95, 464 pp.
ISBN: 0756402018

Once he was known as Nightfall, a man feared by sane people. Now he is the Lord Chancellor Advisor to the King of Alyndar. To his surprise, Sudian as he is now known, likes King Edward and even regards the monarch as a friend. The King and Nightfall journey to Schiz to meet Burke Varasch so that Edward can make restitution for breaking out of prison after vowing to his jailer that he would reside there until matters involving his daughter were resolved.

Before they meet with the aristocrat, Nightfall assists a mage in finding out whether a child has a natal talent. When he returns to the inn where he left his monarch, Nightfall finds dead guards and the king missing. Thinking Edward is held hostage for ransom, Nightfall returns to Alyndar where the King’s Council proclaim him a murdering traitor responsible for the death of King Edward. He is incarcerated, but escapes with the help of Captain Volkmeir, pledging his life to find and free his friend.

Nightfall is one of the best antiheroes in years as he is baseborn and spent much of his life as a feared master criminal until he befriended the king and fell in love with Lady Kelryn. They brought about his redemption by seeing beneath the criminal outer layer to the honorable decent soul inside. The terrific action is fast-paced hooking the audience from the start, but the heart of this novel is the characters who keep readers riveted to learn what is happening to each of the significant players as Mickey Zucker Reichert proves this author is a first class world-building fantasist.

Harriet Klausner

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