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The Red-Stained Wings: The Lotus Kingdoms, Book Two Kindle Edition

by Elizabeth Bear (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Hugo Award–winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to the epic fantasy world of the Lotus Kingdoms with The Red-Stained Wings, the sequel to The Stone in the Skull, taking the Gage into desert lands under a deadly sky to answer the riddle of the Stone in the Skull.

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The Gage and the Dead Man brought a message from the greatest wizard of Messaline to the ruling queen of Sarathai, one of the Lotus Kingdoms. But the message was a riddle, and the Lotus Kingdoms are at war.

Elizabeth Bear created her secondary world of the Eternal Sky in her highly praised novel The Range of Ghosts and its sequels.

The Lotus Kingdoms
#1 The Stone in the Skull
#2 The Red-Stained Wings

The Eternal Sky Trilogy
#1 Range of Ghosts
#2 Shattered Pillars
#3 Steles of the Sky

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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    The Lotus Kingdoms
  2. Print length
    378 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  5. Publisher
    Tor Books
  6. Publication date
    28 May 2019
  7. File size
    6715 KB
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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D. C. Harold
5.0 out of 5 stars Boom!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2019
I loved the first book in this series (though I got the impression you could probably jump on with this one if you wanted to) but this second book really amps up the pace as the main characters each pursue their own strands of adventure in a really original and well realised world. I like Bear a lot - I must have read 20+ books by her - and I think this is her best so far.
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Marcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Condition
Reviewed in the United States on 11 March 2024
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The book is in excellent condition and was delivered quickly.
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Joseph L. Crow
5.0 out of 5 stars Ace sword and sorcery from a master storyteller
Reviewed in the United States on 7 June 2019
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Ok, I’m not exactly an impartial reviewer, what with being a decades long enthusiast of Comrade Bear’s work, but that was some kinda awesome. Of course, it’s got the “middle book” curse of setting stuff up for the finale, but I hafta say the more and more I read of stuff set in this world, the more I love it. Wicked tiger-sorcerers who feed on war, ancient blind dragons drowsing in poison cities under killing stars, gargantuan Straandbeest cities mining radioactive deserts for dragon bones, cigarette-smoking amnesiac goddesses, the Gage and the Dead Man doing their thing, cunning queens desperately breaking themselves in pieces to save their people and outwit viciously dullwitted princelings; man, this place has it all!
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E. Dent
5.0 out of 5 stars Book 2 of the series, I'm eagerly awaiting book 3!
Reviewed in the United States on 28 August 2019
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Continues the story from book 1, I love these characters and the universe Bear has built for them. I like how the story is progressing and I'm not going to say anything more except that it's very intriguing and beautiful.
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Amber
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
Reviewed in the United States on 21 June 2019
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Amazing story, delightfully complex characters.
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