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Title	:	Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic #2)
Author	:	Guy Gavriel Kay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 560 pages
Published	:	February 6th 2001 by Harper Voyager (first published February 11th 2000)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Historical Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Science Fiction. Alternate History

Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic #2) Paperback | Pages: 560 pages

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The Thrilling Sequel To Sailing To Sarantium Beckoned by the Emperor Valerius, Crispin, a renowned mosaicist, has arrived in the fabled city of Sarantium. Here he seeks to fulfill his artistic ambitions and his destiny high upon a dome that will become the emerror's magnificent sanctuary and legacy. But the beauty and solitude of his work cannot protect his from Sarantium's intrigue. Beneath him the city swirls with rumors of war and conspiracy, while otherworldly fires mysteriously flicker and disappear in the streets at night. Valerius is looking west to Crispin's homeland to reunite an Empire -- a plan that may have dire consequences for the loved ones Crispin left behind. In Sarantium, however, loyalty is always complex, for Crispin's fate has become entwined with that of Valerius and his Empress, as well as Queen Gisel, his own monarch exiled in Sarantium herself. And now another voyager -- this time from the east -- has arrived, a pysician determined to make his mark amid the shifting, treachearous currents of passion and violence that will determine the empire's fate.

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Original Title:	Lord of Emperors
ISBN:	0061020028 (ISBN13: 9780061020025)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sarantine Mosaic #2
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2001), Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2001)

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*** 5 ***A buddy read with the Kay Squad @ FBR, because sometimes we need something to feed the soul!!!I am not going to beat around the bush. I have been melancholy. Many reasons, mostly Real Life is a B@#$h, and I have been struggling with reading anything. However, you know that moment while you are reading something and your soul gets heavier at first, then starts pulsing with life again and you realize you are reading something remarkable? This is what happened toward the end of this

Kay is a writer of great skill, one who is able to create a new world filled with believable,  lovable, characters, and delight the reader with descriptions that come to immediate life in the minds eye, while showing the perfect restraint of the true artist.

It is not very rare that book's ending bring me to tears, but somehow I feel I was moved beyond what I usually feel because I had grown so attached to certain characters. I loved this book more than the first. Found it more engaging (probably thanks to the first book) and towards the end I couldn't really stop. This was something very different from the fantasy I usually read, but I have to say that I honestly enjoyed the journey. And I will probably return.

Tremendous follow up to Kay's SAILING TO SARANTIUM. This is historical/fantasy fiction at its finest. It is not, however, "true" fantasy, though I say that with some trepidation. In LORD OF EMPERORS, Kay documents the Byzantine Empire and its changes, sometimes quoting directly from the history books and putting those quotes in the mouths of his fictionalized-but-real historical figures. Best thing I can say about this novel, having read the two part series, is that when I finished the book, I

Another re-read, but these books bear reading time and time again. Crispin is one of the best realised heroes in modern fiction

I've decided there is nothing quite like reading Guy Gavriel Kay. There's nothing quite like the feeling I've had after finishing the last words of two of his intricate stories: sorrow, sure; a bit of residual anger over the unfairness of things, this lingers; peace, overwhelmingly so.Experiencing the way he pulls the threads of another magnificent story to their conclusion is truly remarkable. Somehow he is both able to surprise me and able to make me say, "Of course." and "How could it be

*** 5 ***A buddy read with the Kay Squad @ FBR, because sometimes we need something to feed the soul!!!I am not going to beat around the bush. I have been melancholy. Many reasons, mostly Real Life is a B@#$h, and I have been struggling with reading anything. However, you know that moment while you are reading something and your soul gets heavier at first, then starts pulsing with life again and you realize you are reading something remarkable? This is what happened toward the end of this