Sisterhood Of The Blue Storm (Gollancz S.F.) Book

Fourth book of Arden's highly praised Orokon series of fantasy adventures, Sisterhood of the Blue Storm takes his heroic Prince Jem and his sidekicks Rajal and Littler to an endless chain of islands set in warm seas. Here, as they seek for another of the crystals which they need to save the world, they encounter corsairs, slave galleys, sea monsters, desert islands full of lost boys and above all the Sisterhood, evil sorceresses who shanghai islands aboard their travelling whirlwind to leech the strength and brains from the inhabitants. Here too they meet Selinda and Maius Eneo, two of the more star-crossed lovers of fiction, and re-encounter Captain Porlo, a likeable old pirate more or less at the end of his tether.Arden's fantasies are wonderful camp confections in which every jokey reference is matched with a moment of genuine horror or terror, every moment of visual charm with one of visceral disgust. These are huge inventive books with a unique flavour and a group of ingenu adventurers whose sentimental education involves us in excitement, passion and blank verse. The Orokon is an inventive journey not quite like any other heroic fantasy. --Roz KaveneyRead More