Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence #1)
by
Max Gladstone
336 pages
Published
October 2nd 2012
by Tor Books
(first published January 1st 2012)
ISBN:0765333104
(ISBN13: 9780765333100)
BLURB: A god has died, and it’s
up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm
of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His
city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god
of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without Him, the metropolis’s steam
generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four
million citizens will riot.
Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before
chaos sets in. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the
dead god, who’s having an understandable crisis of faith.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Mis etiquetas: alternate-reality, deidades-y-dioses, fantasy, gargolas, magical-practitioners, multiple-pov, necromancy, vampiros
{bilingual review}
What we did, what was done to us, was not war. The sky opened and the earth rose. Water burned and fire flowed. The dead became weapons. The weapons came alive.
En este mundo, los dioses existen y estuvieron a punto de destruir todo con sus guerras. Como poderosas entidades, se encuentran atados a contratos, subsisten con sacrificios y adoradores. Un balance obtenido con almas, sangre y donde el poder se transa todos los dias con reyes inmortales, sacerdotes, jueces y abogados magicos contractuales.
Theologians centuries back had developed a faster method. One god gave of his power to another, or to a group of worshipers, on a promise of repayment in kind, and of more soulstuff than had been initially lent. Gods grew knit to gods, pantheons to pantheons, expecting, and indeed requiring, their services to be returned. Power flowed, and divine might increased beyond measure. There were risks, though.
Tara es una Craftwoman, recien graduada y expulsada en medio de problemas de la Escuela Escondida (de magia), nigromante y experta en contratos y hechizos del oficio , se siente sorprendida al ser llamada por una prominente Ms. Kevarian para atender a un cliente en la ciudad de Alt Coulumb.
Lo más sorpresivo podria parecer es que en medio de tanta deidad y tautologia taumaturgia, estan los ingenieros, los maquinistas que encuentran un modo de usar el poder divino o en su defecto la magia con sus enormes reglas terrorificas para hacer funcionar cosas tan pedestres como luces, trenes, calderas y mover cosas.
