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This wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as the first one in the series. To me, it had one irritating feature, the characters constantly wishing for things the way they were 'back on the Island'. I couldn't tell if that was a subtle shot at other fantasy authors (Jordan?) or just beating the same theme to death over and over. Other than that, this wasn't bad. Fairly standard fantasy, the good guys take over a kingdom, then find out that the evil isn't gone, just replaced by something worse. (

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Karlstar | Nov 8, 2009 |

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Lord of the Isles (2)

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Queen of Demons

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To Jennie Faries, a neat person and a cherished member of my extended family

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Valence III, crowned King of the Isles, shivered in the unseasonably warm night as the wizard Silyon scribed the words of his incantation on the transom of an age-crumbled gateway.

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Queen of Demons is the middle volume of a mammoth heroic fantasy trilogy that begins with Lord of the Isles. After dealing with a variety of menaces in book one, shepherd-boy hero Garric is on course to unite his archipelago world against the remaining forces of chaos, evil, and unpleasantness, thus earning the title Lord of the Isles.

Again Garric's allies--including some interesting new helpers--are widely scattered in a tangle of linked story lines and headlong action, featuring many exhilarating fights against monsters, chimeras, phantoms, revenants, Hairy Men, Scaly Men, a cyclops, wicked wizards, and the book's two biggies: the unspeakable Beast that demands a diet of young girls and the title's evilly beautiful demon-spawned Queen. At regular intervals characters fall through another magic portal to find themselves in a new plane or dimension or hellworld, there to discover mislaid friends, deadly peril, or more likely both.

Drake keeps his narrative bowling along with plenty of color, occasional doses of practical politics, and no time at all for boredom. Arbitrary transitions and wild coincidences make it seem slightly tongue in cheek, soap-operatic entertainment with an endless series of hissable villains to be zapped, outwitted, or skewered with a trusty blade. At the very end, with Good seemingly triumphant, up pops another one: