Product DescriptionFor centuries they lived amongst us. The frightful and wondrous, the angelic and bloodthirsty. Living in a reality just beyond the Veil, humanity’s myths and legends are caught in a struggle for their very survival—against hunters far more powerful than they are.
Into this struggle has stepped a New England lawyer who once wanted to be an actor—a man who both longs for the mortal woman he was to marry and is desperate to rescue the sister who’s been taken hostage. Neither hero nor warrior, Oliver Bascombe now finds himself brandishing a magical sword, walking in the company of a woman who sometimes appears as a fox and a man made of pure ice, and dueling with albino giants and winged killers. For in the world of the Borderkind—and the realms that exist beyond it—Oliver is discovering just how vulnerable are humankind’s myths, the dire consequences of their extinction, and the reason he was chosen to save them.…
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Step Across the Border
The night before his wedding, a posed, intelligent lawyer discovers a world both unlike and like his own outside of his door - just beyond the Veil. Oliver finds himself in a place populated with mythological characters. In this strange new world, his strength, smarts, and loyalty are tested, and he must forge alliances in order to survive.
As readers of trilogies are well aware, it is crucial that the second book in the series be strong, connecting the start of the story to its conclusion, ... Read More
Rating: - Middle Trilogy Syndrome Strikes Again...3.5 Stars
The initial entry in this series was an absorbing, mind-boggling story that rivaled Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" in terms of its subject matter, quality, and level of wonder. This entry falls far short of that level, though it does have its strong points.
Borderkind takes 400 pages to move the story along and get the central characters ready for the final installment. There are far too many fight scenes between The Borderkind and the Hunters that only seem to differ in their locales, and ... Read More
Rating: - Good 2nd book...could be more focused
My big concern with book 3 is that Mr. Golden is spending too much time focusing on characters I simply don't care about - without giving away spoilers, I skip over all the sections involving the detective's daughter, and just don't care all that much about our Oliver's fiancee. What I want to read more of is Oliver, Kit and "the winter man", who is a great character. I hope more emphasis is placed on them, and would love Oliver and Kit to end up together :)
Overall, I love the ideas Mr. Golden has ... Read More
Rating: - My rating is for the whole "trilogy" so far.
This is well done fantasy with enough orginality to keep it from becoming a total yawn. The only problem is that so far its substance is really too thin to pass for a true "trilogy." And I'm getting weary of publishers insisting on the extra bucks that can be generated from three separate trade paperbacks instead of issuing a story of this nature as one coherent volume.
Further, in order to make it a "trilogy" far too much padding was used and it gets a little tedious at time.
Rating: - Ah, that Old Middle Book Syndrome
I greatly enjoyed the "Myth Hunters" much to my surprise, and this is a fairly decent follow up. But it sort of left me with that middle of trilogy feeling. Will be looking forward to the final book, but didn't like it as much as the first one. Am also looking forward the author's "Baltimore".
- Step Across the Border
- Good 2nd book...could be more focused
