Dark Light

By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Book Overview

A dangerous quest has created an impossible alliance: a vampire and a paladin, beings as opposite as night and day, must together find one of the land's lost shards--an artifact dating back to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671032674
• ISBN13: 9780671032678
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 5.6" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Now this is a great book. . . .

Note: Some of this book's plot, and even the end results, are revealed in this review. Truly, this is one of my FAVORITE standalone fantasy books ever, and that may seem a little stupid, but I enjoyed this book ALOT, and I've read it twice over. Placed in Delos, the enviroment and setting and world of Shattered Light, I was dissapointed to discover no map. Nonetheless, I think the idea of a main character as a vampire fooling a bunch of self-righteous knights and paladins into following him was absolutely unique, original, creative and brilliant. How about this, and I'll be blunt: no love story involved, deceptions and decieving galore, and all the main characters die in the end! HAHAHA! Incredible! I've read alot of fantasy (R. Jordan, T. Goodkind, D. Eddings, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and alot of more stuff) but I was completely stunned by this book. No epic storyline or passion, just damn hard-core fantasy. However, I do have a COUPLE qualms regarding this book: the creatures they fight are more or less described to a VERY minor degree, such as to border on saying that the reader is left with no conceit or mental image regarding the monsters the characters fight. And, although this is no complaint from me, I think the readers should be aware of this, the setting itself was unoriginal, despite the fact that the whole nation of Delos is perpetually set in a desert. No new fantasy creatures or elements can be found in this book, and so, for this reason, and perhaps the reason above, I give it four out of five stars.