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Le Voyage d'Hawkwood (Les Monarchies divines, Tome 1)

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Les différents royaumes qui gouvernent le monde sont entrés en guerre. Aekir, la grande cité ramusienne, vient de tomber sous le joug du sultan Aurungzeb. À Hebrion, le roi Abeleyn IV s’inquiète de la montée des Inceptines, cet ordre religieux fanatique qui veut faire disparaître toute trace de magie sur terre. Alors que le noble Hawkwood revient à Abrusio à bord de sa caravelle, une partie de son équipage se fait arrêter. Pour survivre, il doit accepter un marché : aller à la recherche d’un continent légendaire. Il a pour équipage les magiciens et les sorciers devenus indésirables dans la cité. Malheureusement, personne n’est jamais revenu vivant de ce périple impossible… Série devenue culte, la fresque épique en cinq volumes des Monarchies divines ravira les amateurs d’une fantasy mature et sombre.

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Hawkwood’s Voyage by Paul Kearney

Kearney sets the very beginning of  Hawkwood’s Voyage  in the aftermath of a besieged city’s destruction, throwing us into the midst of a dark, gritty, conflicted world. This totally captivated my interest, and also reminded me of the beginning of Erikson’s  Gardens of the Moon,  which also begins in the wake of a siege and gradually fills in previous events as it goes along. In Kearney’s novel, the kingdoms of Normannia are under attack from the Sultanates of the Eastern Merduks. The great city of Aekir has fallen, and it’s only a matter of time before the rest of Normannia’s defences are breached. However, the defence of the realm against the Merduks is hampered by the power games of the leaders of the Inceptine church, whose influence across Normannia has shackled its secular leaders and instigated brutal pogroms against all foreigners and users of magic.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to resist the Inceptines’ edicts, the King of Hebrion has commissioned a secret voyage to the legendary Western Continent, and two ships filled with arcane refugees now flee a land on the edge of civil war and journey into the unknown. The eponymous voyage is just one storyline amongst several, though it was by far my favourite. Although I didn’t particularly like Hawkwood as a character, I did thoroughly enjoy the tale of his voyage, in particular the elements of horror that suffused it: the ancient ship’s log telling of a dread beast terrorising a previous voyage is brilliantly reminiscent of  Dracula,  and I wish more page time had been devoted to this storyline to create a better sense of the fear and tension on board the  Osprey .

Hawkwood’s Voyage  boasts a range of characters, some more interesting than others. There’s Corfe the soldier, a former deserter attempting to redeem himself to his new commander; Richard Hawkwood, a ship’s captain commissioned to undertake a dangerous voyage; Abeleyn, a King made powerless in his own realm by the strictures of the Church; and Bardolin, a powerful mage and scholar. There are also other, more minor POV characters, though the main storylines revolve around these four. Unfortunately I found it difficult to sympathise with some of them: there seemed to me to be a sense of distance from the characters, occasionally heightened by the changing of POV without warning. For instance, one moment we might be viewing a scene through Corfe’s eyes, and the next moment we’ve switched to minor character General Martellus without so much as a page break to mark the change of POV. I’m not sure whether this is deliberate or just careless, but for me it detracted somewhat from any attempt to form a sympathetic bond with certain characters.

Kearney’s writing style is for the most part engaging throughout. However, he does inflict quite a few infodumps on the reader in the form of lengthy descriptions of scenery and history, particularly at the beginning of chapters and upon arriving in a new setting. Although the detail clearly demonstrates the skill and extent of the author’s worldbuilding, the way it is conveyed does tend to slow the pace a bit too much. Similarly an occasional overdose of lengthy dialogue makes  Hawkwood’s Voyage  a bit dry in places. On the other hand, Kearney does a more than decent job of writing large-scale conflict. His battle scenes are vivid, gritty and well-described (if a touch long-winded at times), not least because he maintains a balance between characters who are in the thick of the fighting and those who have a bird’s-eye view of the conflict. Furthermore, the author’s frequent references to the horrors of war and religious fanaticism – burning people at the stake, attacking an eyeless priest on the roadside, crucifying an enemy general – convey a pervading atmosphere of threat and tension, but not to the extent that it dominates the novel; Kearney certainly doesn’t shy away from depictions of violence, but nor does he dwell on them too much. His writing is gritty without being grimdark, and it suits the tone of the novel perfectly.

It’s obvious that  Hawkwood’s Voyage  is the start of something huge. Each of its disparate storylines kicks off major events, and though some seem less relevant than others it’s clear that they are all destined to eventually become important parts of the whole. Kearney’s world is geographically detailed and politically complex, and is peopled by characters both heroic and unscrupulous. I can’t wait to read more.

Laura M. Hughes

Laura works as a freelance editor beneath the grey, pigeon-filled skies of northern England. When she isn’t working on a manuscript or writing for the Hive, you're most likely to find her on Twitter, playing Dragon Age, or hoarding polyhedral dice. Laura also writes LitRPG under the pen name Demi Harper; her first novel, GOD OF GNOMES, was published in September 2019. She created The Fantasy Hive in 2017; her sanity has been steadily disintegrating ever since.

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Hawkwood’s Voyage (Monarchies of God #1) by Paul Kearney

Quite a good story, although it took a while to get started. I still have the feeling this book is a mere prelude to the main happenings in the story.

The story is told from 3 viewpoints. The first is that of an invasion by an African seeming race on the Ramusian Kingdoms to the west. The second is the politics played by the monarchs of the Ramusian Kingdoms and the religious powers of the age. The third is a westerly voyage to lands hitherto unknown.

The setting is straight from the Middle Ages. Featuring the politicking of various religious and secular powers, each trying to gain dominance over the other. It even features the threat of ex-communication by the High Pontiff who is in effect the Spiritual Head of the Church, a la Pope. Hawkwood’s voyage is similar to that of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Despite the similarities of the setting to Europe of the Middle Ages, the plot is quite different and more intriguing.

It’s a kind of ensemble cast. There’s no particular main character, and the characters are also somewhat gray. I don’t even know where my own loyalties lie!

Anyway, it’s a good book. From where Hawkwood’s Voyage ended, the second installment of the series promises to be more intense.

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Les différents royaumes qui gouvernent le monde sont entrés en guerre. Aekir, la grande cité ramusienne, vient de tomber sous le joug du sultan Aurungzeb. À Hebrion, le roi Abeleyn IV s’inquiète de la montée des Inceptines, cet ordre religieux fanatique qui veut faire disparaître toute trace de magie sur terre. Alors que le noble Hawkwood revient à Abrusio à bord de sa caravelle, une partie de son équipage se fait arrêter. Pour survivre, il doit accepter un marché : aller à la recherche d’un continent légendaire. Il a pour équipage les magiciens et les sorciers devenus indésirables dans la cité. Malheureusement, personne n’est jamais revenu vivant de ce périple impossible… Série devenue culte, la fresque épique en cinq volumes des Monarchies divines ravira les amateurs d’une fantasy mature et sombre.

• Número de páginas 624 páginas
• Idioma Francés
• Editorial LGF
• Fecha de publicación 12 Febrero 2014
• Dimensiones 4.33 x 1.18 x 7.09 pulgadas
• ISBN-10 2253022667
• ISBN-13 978-2253022664
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• Editorial ‏ : ‎ LGF (12 Febrero 2014)
• Idioma ‏ : ‎ Francés
• Pocket Book ‏ : ‎ 624 páginas
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2253022667
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2253022664
• Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 4.33 x 1.18 x 7.09 pulgadas

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