Call of Kerberos

Twilight of Kerberos #5

by Jonathan Oliver

Do you see the light?

The Final Faith does, and so does Enlightened One Gabriella DeZantez, Sister of the Swords of Dawn. She sees the Light of God. She sees the Light of Truth. The Order of the Swords of Dawn have been the bane of heretics and apostates for as long as there has been a Final Faith, but when an assassin strikes at the heart of the Faith, it signals both a new threat and an ancient one.

Gabriella must eliminate the danger to the Faith, but what is the connection between shadowy assassins, fleeing refugees, and an ancient legend of an island made of diamond?

The answers can only be illuminated by making everyone see the Light of God, the Light of Truth and, ultimately, the Light of Heaven.

Twilight of Kerberos is an exciting new sword and sorcery series following the adventures of a group of characters with extraordinary talents. Also available in the series: Shadowmage, The clockwork king of Orl, The light of heaven, The Crucible of the dragon god, Night's Haunting.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic, Adventure, Action

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jonathan Oliver is the British Fantasy Award winning editor of Magic, House of Fear, End of the Line, End of the Road, World War Cthulhu, Five Stories High and Dangerous Games. He is the author of the collection The Language of Beasts, out now from Black Shuck Books.

Reviews

[Seek · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've rarely failed to finish a book, but in the end, The Call of Kerberos was this rare book for me.

The worldbuilding wasn't too bad, and ordinarily, I should have found it interesting, but the writing was uninspiring, and the characters were generally flat, made of cardboard, and boring; I had no investment in the plot, or in what happened to them. (I did dislike some of the characters but I couldn't even be bothered to read on to see if Bad Things happened to them, which means I didn't even have a negative investment in them.)

All in all, I'm not entirely sure why this book fell dead in the water for me, but I didn't finish it, and will be moving on to new reads.

[Paschalis]

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[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm in two minds about this book. I do quite like the idea of multiple authors playing in a shared world, but this is not the strongest entry in the series so far. The writing is good enough to keep me with the story up to the end, but I really wasn't buying into the premise - and I think this may turn out to be a problem with the series as a whole.