Saturday, 29 September 2018

THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS & THE MEDALLION OF ARISSIS

Claudia Jones & the book
The flight between Auckland and Dubai takes 17 hours and 20 minutes. It's a long flight and the best way to survive in it is reading. The Grandma is reading The medallion of Arissis, a fantastic book that Claudia Jones recommended her some days ago.

The book has been written by J.A.Martín and it is the first book of Corazón de Tinieblas (Heart of Darkness), an epic story told around the secrets of the Holy Scriptures of Tarnak and his lost story.

The Grandma is a great fan of J.R.R.Tolkien stories as well as the Arthurian Cycle in Britain. Before her visit to New Zealand she was talking about the figure of King Arthur and his influence in modern literature. During her trip to New Zealand, she discovered Hobbiton, the beautiful place where were filmed The Lord and the Rings and its sequels.

The medallion of Arissis combines these sagas and create an atmosphere of mystery which helps the great narrative giving to it a perfect internal tempo and an amazing external one. The  novel has great influences of the Tolkien's world in its plot and Arthurian Cycle in its writing and if you join the best sources with an excellent narrative, you obtain a wonderful story full of unforgettable moments.

The first edition is in Spanish but we hope we can enjoy Catalan and English ones very soon. It's only the beginning to the world of translations.

Don't hesitate and run to your closer bookshop or Amazon, if you don't like to go out, and get this amazing book. You won't regret. It's a must.


To help you, The Grandma is going to read a little introduction to cheer you to continue reading it...

Twenty years after the bloody battle of Órhadair in which more than one hundred thousand souls lost their lives, Írthimor the Necromancer returns to the gorges of Herdorín with the hope of finding the last of the Einherjar alive.

After that decisive confrontation against the lords of the Underworld in which there were neither winners nor losers, the lands of Gaia are sunk in a long lethargy. The power of the Shadows has decayed and the humans are dedicated to dispute the decay of their kingdoms, while the dwarves take refuge in their mountains and the elves in their forests, oblivious to any problem that is heard beyond their borders.

However, a dark power will be unleashed with the return of the Prince of Darkness...

More information: TedEd


The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

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