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October's Baby

Dread Empire, Book 2

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October's Baby

By: Glen Cook
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
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Cradled in swords, the war child comes.

October. When leaves turn blood and the wind turns bone: a time for doing things dark and strange. So the princess bears a child to the winged thing and the cries are heard far beyond the peaks of Dragon's Teeth, at the end of the world's Beginning, where Nepanthe and Mocker wait for the war that wizards dread.

©1980 Glen Cook (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Science Fiction
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For me, too much war tactics and strategy and too little of what I actually like. Maybe I just don't like war for war's sake. Seemed to me characters involved in the war were too anonymous. And maybe, I was expecting more Black Company, which I guess is unfair. But what can you do.

Some great moments, but..

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