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Very frustrating. The writing could have done with some tighter editing, especially on comma placement, which too often threw me off. I thought I had an example of this but now I can't find it, sorry. But there's a lot of potential here, with Campbell still finding his feet a bit, and I do want to read the following books.
View all 3 comments. Deepgate is a city hanging by chains over a nigh-bottomless abyss. There is an organization of assassins called the Adepts of the Spine that works for the church of Ulcis. One adept, Rachel, is charged with two tasks; training Dill, the last archon of his line, and hunting down Carnival, a rogue angel who claims a soul every Scar Night.
Only someone else has begun claiming souls and Carnival is taking the blame Sounds good, right? So what's not to like? A lot, as it turns out. The writing scre Deepgate is a city hanging by chains over a nigh-bottomless abyss. The writing screams both "first time writer" and "I desperately want this to be epic fantasy.
The characters are pretty flat and the pace is painfully slow. At pages, very very little had actually happened. There was one battle but it was a fairly ridiculous affair straight out of Pirates of the Caribean 2. That isn't to say there's nothing to like in Scar Night.
I like a lot of the ideas presented within and Deepgate is an interesting city. However, the first pages could easily be condensed into I'm putting this book back on the to-read pile without rating it.
I might have a higher opinion of it when I pick it back up. Right now, I'm not in the mood for a long tedious book that's part of a series. View all 10 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is the first book in a series. I have read it before and I needed something simple to read.
The character development is decent, but what I really enjoy is the whole development of the world of Deepgate. The totally out there development of a society, city and religion by the author reminds me somewhat of China Mieville it is creativity. May 04, Jason rated it really liked it Shelves: e-books , read The cover compares Campbell to Neil Gaiman and I must say that I did not see any similarities at all. What I did see was an urban fantasy that would have fit right in with Hal Duncan's Book of all Hours series.
The stories, characters, and setting are,all similar, not their writing style. Duncan is a difficult read. This is a fast read that is dark and dirty. The cast is diverse and we get many POV's. I wish that I would have connected more with the heroes but maybe that will come with the next book. This is a very dark and at times gory novel.
The angel pictured on the cover is one step from being a vampire. I loved the imagery of the city and the chains. The graphic action is fantastic. The book has a good conclusion. Dec 07, Alden rated it did not like it Shelves: fantasy. The one thing that can be said for Scar Night: it does not retread paths already turned into six-lane super-highways. The Tower of Shadows , for instance a worse book, and one I read right after this one takes place in Fantasy Kingdom 17, and features a pirate cove, an enchanted port city, and a genuine, do-gooding knight, for God's sake.
Where does Scar Night take place? On top of a bottomless chasm, in a city which dangles down on a series of thick iron chains. Which is a dark, kinda cool imag The one thing that can be said for Scar Night: it does not retread paths already turned into six-lane super-highways.
Which is a dark, kinda cool image. The rationale for this: the god of Chains, Ulcis, dwells at the bottom of the abyss, and is recruiting the souls of the dead the dead are lowered to the bottom in order to raise an army that will wrest open the gates of Heaven which have been barred to mortal souls.
Oddly, when I was first writing reviews of this and Tower of Shadows , I didn't realized that both authors rewrote Paradise Lost. Of course, we all know there is only one true Fantasy rewrite of Paradise Lost, and neither of these bozos are Phillip Pullman. Given how many people fall to their deaths over the course of the novel, you'd think they'd just build on the sides of the chasm. But that's a minor quibble, I suppose.
The real, central flaw of Scar Night is this: no one, and I mean no one, ever seems genuinely happy with their lives. I don't mean that the book itself is depressing: I've read books that made me weep March , To Kill a Mockingbird , Bridge to Terabithia , and Scar Night doesn't come close. But a book, especially a dark book, needs the light, to establish what is at stake, or what can be lost. But when everyone in the city of Deepgate, and all the characters in the novel, seem utterly, pathologically joyless, it leaves me wondering why I should care whether or not the whole thing falls into the abyss.
And this is deliberate; one character keeps commenting about how everyone besides him; he's not happy, but he's differently unhappy is already dead on the inside; they're just waiting to stop moving so they can join the army of their god. One other thing: Alan Campbell's vies of religion is warped. Let's just ignore the idea, that is uncritically advanced, that everyone in Deepgage is only living as a prelude to the afterlife, or the nature of the gods in Scar Night, which would provide some spoilers without really advancing my argument.
The book has two competing faiths. Most of the characters, again, live in Deepgate and pay homage to Ulcis, the God of Chains the title doesn't really mean anything, as far as I can tell, beyond the fact that he had the city be built on chains.
The rest worship Ayen, the Goddess of Light who as has been discussed closed the gates of heaven. What exactly do these two faiths do? Well, the church of Ulcis runs Deepgate, while those of Ayen are a bunch of barbarian nomads.
Oh, and they go to war with each other every few decades, like Crusader clockwork; this appears to be the only thing the faiths inspire in their followers. While it might be reading too much into it to say Campbell's point seems to be that religions are power hungry memes which do nothing but cause conflict and push people apart Hey, I'm a lit major; reading too much into things is all I'm trained to do. So: Campbell's point seems to be that religions are power hungry memes which do nothing but cause conflict and push people apart.
Oh, and occasionally play a conflicting, confusing part in whether or not the world ends. For those who care. I mean, I'm an semi-athiest who read The God Delusion and who frequents Free Thought Blogs, and i thought he was taking it more than slightly too far. Final note: this is a book where there is apparently a detailed understanding of genetics and chemistry, to the point that at the climax, we see a giant fleet of war-zepplins bombing the hell out of some sort of super-tank.
In this case: why, why, why, is the most advanced personal we see a crossbow? What the hell kind of tech-tree puts incendiary bombs before muskets? Nov 29, Rollie rated it liked it. After reading dystopian books, I never thought I would meet again steampunk books.
I was lucky then to have this book because some of my friends find this hard to catch one. Dill is the last angel of his line. Being the last archon tails a heavy consequence. So when the time comes he has to become a temple angel, he m After reading dystopian books, I never thought I would meet again steampunk books.
So when the time comes he has to become a temple angel, he meets Rachel Hael—a Spine— assassin. Carnaval knows how murderer she is as much as the people of Deepgate know. As for my part, yes, I have almost given up this book. The first part of the book is metaphor-coated that tends people to become confused and disoriented.
The formula also leads the book to boringness that makes the people depreciate it instead. As for the boringness, I did find this book dragging during the first part, at all.
Rephrase the first part, and then I could have given my five stars. However, contrast to the first part, the second and third make up for the lousiness of the previous one. The second part as if makes sense in just a click that got my interest to continue reading the book till the end. This book has even evoked my emotion at the halfway through especially at what happened to Dill. The metaphor lessens that becomes understandable after all. I was even shocked at how the twist developed at the latter of their journey.
This book is pretty good for a steampunk lovers. View all 13 comments. Sep 28, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy rated it liked it Shelves: fantasy. I'm a fantasy fan, but I've gone off the genre in general. Too much heavy, overblown writing masquerading as epic style, too much Sopranos-style soap opera, too little magic and strangeness. Despite the steampunk tag which means nothing to me - I refuse to accept that steampunk is a genre, it's just a bit of window dressing to help focus target markets this is a pretty good fantasy debut.
Lots of dark magic and some weird technology and a healthy dose of the macabre. A great city setting and a I'm a fantasy fan, but I've gone off the genre in general. A great city setting and a complex plot which weaves together vast, theological undercurrents and involving foreground stories of individuals tossed around by the larger currents at play. The minuses: enjoyable as they are, the characters are all stock figures.
The style is heavy, smells of frequent dips in the thesaurus and too many times I found myself following the story despite of rather than thanks to the narrative. However, the style does settle down a bit over the course of the novel, and when Campbell is caught up enough in his story to forget to make with the opaque adverbs and portmanteau sentences, he gets a good pace going. The hopping between different storylines gets annoying as the suspense in each thread builds, but that's a problem endemic to the form contemporary fantasy has shaped for itself.
As a fairly demanding fantasy reader, I found enough here to consider it a good piece of entertainment and to at least try the second volume in this trilogy. Feb 07, Joe Davoust rated it liked it. An awesome plot, interesting characters, but muddled descriptions make this book a mixed bag. To be honest, I still have a hard time picturing the settings of this book. Among a few other confusing An awesome plot, interesting characters, but muddled descriptions make this book a mixed bag.
Among a few other confusingly underdescribed oddities is a giant machine called the tooth. I had such a hard time picturing it, I had to substitute the Star Wars Jawa sand crawler with a giant shredder on the front. That said, it was an intriguing story involving angels and demons and gods and airships, so I am looking forward to the next novel in the series.
Oct 31, Mike the Paladin rated it liked it Shelves: fantasy. While this book isn't "wonderful" it has a unique flavor. I would not as some have call this a "traditional" fantasy. It has bits of "post apocalypse", a touch of Science fiction, some overt fantasy, a little flavor of steam punk I'd call it sort of it's own "thing".
I'm not enamored with this book, I don't plan to re-read it, but it is worth a read to try this world out. It's a world of dry dusty want and blood smeared violence Building it's own mythos and While this book isn't "wonderful" it has a unique flavor. Building it's own mythos and even a sort of pantheon it tells a gritty story in a world where survival seems to be at a premium.
Not one I like a lot but one I wanted to see to it's end. See what you think. View 2 comments. I was first draw to Scar Night because of its cover I know, what a sin. Campbell doesn't write like Neil Gaiman. He has none of Gaiman's humor or light-heartedness. Instead, his writing is thickly dark, with his own brand of situational humor to help lighten the mood. Scar Night was difficult for me to get into at first, bec I was first draw to Scar Night because of its cover I know, what a sin.
Scar Night was difficult for me to get into at first, because it relies so heavily on description, and I've never been that good at imagining the words on a page. However, Campbell does a good job of repeating images until the scope of what you're "seeing" really sinks in.
But eventually I realized that the existence or non-existence of Ulcis, the Chain God, is completely beside the point.
Instead, with extreme finesse, Campbell weaves his characters' individual set of beliefs, setting them in motion in a political atmosphere so that very different ways of looking at the world bounce off of each other and off of the world itself. Reading this book is like watching an experiment being played out -- if these characters are placed in this world, what kinds of crazy interpretations will they come up with, what illogical actions will they take.
Despite all of this, the book is missing some narrative tug. Towards the end, I was tearing through the pages, but most of the way through the book, I was reading leisurely, enjoying the vistas. Hence the four stars. But while it may not be "gripping," Scar Night is still a great read for those who like fantasy and don't mind if it gets very dark. I was a little apprehensive about reading Scar Night but I thought that it sounded pretty good. When I started reading it I felt that it was a little slow but quite interesting.
As the story progressed however, I got really sucked into the story and it had a sort of exponential curve of interest. I absolutely loved Scar Night. I liked Dill, Rachel and Carnival. I thought it was awesome that Rachel was a kick-ass female, she was strong and independent and I always enjoy reading about female characters like that. My favourite character would have to be Carnival. At first, she comes off as really scary and the bad guy but then you actually get to know more about her and I started really feeling like she was a good character, just misunderstood.
I think the overall plot of the book was really good and I found it to be highly intriguing. I felt that the ending was really good too. It finished the story but also left a little opening for the next book in the series. I feel like I could talk about how I really enjoyed this book for a really long time but all I have to say really is that Scar Night is an amazing fantasy novel and I cannot wait to get my hands on the next book in the series.
But man, this guy is multi-talented. Scar Night takes place in a wonderfully dark world, where blood is the currency of both heaven, and hell. Long ago, God closed the gates of hell, in a fit of anger at the evilness of mankind. Her sons rose up with an army of angels, but lost, and were cast down to earth and imprisoned. On such son was Ulcis, god of chains, bound in a deep abyss. Humans have built the city of Deepgate, above their god's prison, suspended above the abyss by chains.
Ulcis collects the souls of the faithful, lest they be consumed by the Maze of Hell, and once he has enough, plans on ascending once again to wage war upon his mother. Deep Gate, once no more than a shrine and source of pilgrimages, is now a military might thanks to their Airships and Poisons. Thousands of years later, the city sags in it's tired chains, decadent and corrupt. Dill, last of the Angels descended from Ulcis' herald, is about to reach the age of manhood.
He is kept locked in a tower by priests, where he can do no harm, and he is forbidden from flying. There is one other angel in Deepgate, Carnival. Thousands of years old and entirely mad, Carnival hunts the city of Deepgate one night a month, Scar Night, when the moon is no more than a thin scar in the night sky. She kills, then consumes the blood of her victims. And the Spine the tempered assassins of the Church have hunted her for a millennia.
This book is lushly dark and a terrific read. Campbell's imaginative world is full of devious characters that you cannot help but love to hate or hate to love , like the charismatic yet creepy Master Poisoner Devon, the determined Mr Nettle, the foppish priest Fogwill Crumb, the ancient Presbyter Sypes and even the earnest yet young Dill. I highly recommend this book, if you enjoy horror or dark fantasy or steampunk.
The sequel, Iron Angel, was not nearly so enjoyable for me. Iron Angel took place in Hell, which was incredibly detailed and I loved Campbell's twists, but it simply did not hold nearly as much interest to me as Scar Night did. Most of the characters in Iron Angel were gods, the brothers of Ulcis, or powerful beings in the Maze of Hell, or even men trained to fight deamons.
They were all to powerful, in my opinion. Part of what made Scar Night so good, were the nobody characters, Dill and Nettle and Sypes even Devon, who turned out to be a right bastard but at least you understood his motivations, and even cant help rooting for him. Five of Five stars, four stars for sequel. Aug 09, Sean Whatshisface rated it it was ok.
When it was good, it was really good. Unfortunately, the vast majority was not good. It rambled on in places, used a lot of exposition for not much information It just didn't capture my attention, until like, the last three chapters, at which point I was already skimming most of the book in an effort to.
I loved the world Campbell built here, tho.
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