Prince of Nothing The Darkness That Comes Before, Book 01, (Paperback)

from Cecrow

In this fantasy novel a holy war is initiated between two opposing factions, which several others are attempting to usurp for their own ends - lots of gray area here. Beneath the surface lies another, deeper level of events where an ancient evil may be pulling the strings to propitiate an apocaly...

from SaintBrevity

The phrase "highly original" gets bandied about quite a bit on book jackets, especially in the genre market. This book actually earns it, while also being well written, to boot. If I had to describe this in terms of authors, I'd probably mention Glen Cook for the refusal to take it easy on the re...

from selfnoise

Promising beginning to a splashy new fantasy series. Has some good writing, great political intrigue, and things move along at a nice clip. Suffers from badly written female characters and some "attack of the cliche" moments. It's not quite at the peak of the large, splashy fantasy (think China M...

from seanelavelle

The Darkness That Comes Before is the first book in the Prince of Nothing Trilogy. The great cities of the north were destroyed over two thousand years ago during the first Apocalypse. The north is nothing but a wasteland full of crumbling ruins, barbarians, the inhuman Sranc and the enigmatic No...

from pstotts

There are very few books that are as ambitious as R. Scott Bakker's "The Darkness That Comes Before". Most authors would never attempt to create such a vast world with a deeply encompassing and vital intellectual history, and disparate races that have varying philosophical viewpoints and ways of ...