A Sword from Red Ice - JV Jones

[Lacedaemonian]

Having read the first two books in this trilogy, I was curious to find out whether anybody had red A Sword from Red Ice, which is of course the final chapter in the trilogy. I enjoyed the first two books, although they were very depressing and heavy at times, but have not been unable to obtain a copy of the book yet.

There is actually no reference to this book on her site, which is very strange.

 

[Neon]

I saw the Sword of Shadows series on amazon the other day, and it looked really good. Without any spoilers, what makes you say the books were a little heavy or depressing at times?

 

[Grawgos]

I do not think this book is out yet. I'm a manager at a Books-A-Million and our computer states it is not out yet. I have surfed other stores online and they all list it as a pre order.

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Waterstones said they could order it in for me. I think that the hard back version has not been printed in mass volume. Strangely there is no mention of the book on JV Jones' website.

The books are really good, and I rate JV Jones very highly. I saw potential in her earlier books (The Baker's Boy, A Man Betrayed, Master and a Fool), which came into fruition with her more recent series, Sword of Shadows.

Why are they heavy and depressing? Firstly the climate in which the story is wrote is Arctic like, very very cold and desolate. Secondly a lot of the central character's family and close friends are killed horribly. Thirdly the two central characters increasingly struggle with monumental emotional strain.

 

[Silk]

I've been waiting for this book to come out for over a year and did have it on preorder from amazon, as it was supposed to be released last september. This order was mysteriously cancelled and the book disapeared from the amazon website.

According to Ottakar's its now going to be released in december this year.

I also found it strange that none of this was mentioned on her website, I didn't even see any refference to the fact it might exist someday!

 

[Lacedaemonian]

I had it on pre order on amazon too, but cancelled it when it looked like being delayed. I have been waiting for this book for two years or something.

 

[Silk]

Is it possible to maybe email JV Jones herself to find out whats up?

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Maybe you could. Julie has never responded to an email from me yet though.

 

[Silk]

I might give it a miss, sorry! I always get scarred of emailling authors incase they think I'm some kind of scarry stalker

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Well I think I came across as that way.

Just ask her if she can inform you of when the book will be out, and keep up the good work etc etc.

 

[Silk]

righty ho! Will do my best to not appear in any way phycotic and report back any findings...but first must find some dutch courage

 

[Lacedaemonian]

All of hopes are resting on your shoulders Silk.....

 

[GOLLUM]

Hi there!

Like the rest of you I'm also waiting for the final book in this excellent sereis. JV is one of my favourite fantasy writers full stop with this current trilogy. Like she says on her website, she's still writing this book, so she probably doesn't know herelf exactly when it will come out.

Fingers crossed it will be by the end of 2005.

Bye for now..

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Has she updated her site???? Two yearly updates.

 

[Amber]

I hope she releases it soon as well. I really did enjoy the first two, and liked her other series as well. Just as a side point at the risk of sounding obsessive, why, why, why do woman always have to have children in books? Why can't they remain valid whole characters in their own right, rather than always having to have an heir? As this is totally OT I shall stop here

Not that I minded with J.V. Jones, as it was a necessary plot point.

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Women's role in the universe is to create life. Men's role is to cull life. Well that is the case so far....

 

[GOLLUM]

Has she updated her site???? Two yearly updates.

The website has certainly been updated in relation to what it looked like say 12 months ago and in previous years.

Here's the link I use:

http://jvj.com

Is this different to what you've seen?

 

[a|one]

Havent seen it in any libraries/bookstores over here either, cant wait though. I read the second volume in a day and I hope to beat that with the third, JV Jones is like a drug. The Book of Words was also a great trilogy, though somewhat less bleak and desolate. It did still retain many depressing characters/concepts, Tawl was one of my favorite characters of all time, and he was definitely depressed. I think Jones saw in her earlier works that all of her best(or at least most interesting) characters were either severely depressed or flawed, and so in this new series is trying to push Raif to the absolute limit and see what happends.

So far I have zero complaints.

 

[GOLLUM]

Sorry folks but this book has now been mooted for publication by Nov 2007 but who really knows??

Sadly this may become the book that is never published...

 

[nixie]

Nov 2007 ?? seems for ever sinceI read the first two