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Series: The Coldfire Trilogy
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0886776643
Pages: 512 pages
Publisher: DAW Books, Inc.
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
Votes: 8
Crown of Shadows by C. S. FriedmanDescription: The dreams were all he had now. The hate was all that was holding him together.
That and the drugs.
Alcohol to numb the fear, to ease the pain of remembering. Cerebus for the madness within him, the beast that must have outlet now and then or it would swallow him whole. Slowtime for visions of color and music in a world washed gray by sorrow. And blackout - blessed blackout - little black pills for a taste of oblivion, for shadows of death to fold about him like a cocoon, shutting out all the pain and the beauty and the hope and the fear - shutting it all out, every last bit of that agony called life. Long enough for him to rest. Long enough for him to sleep. Blackout for the coward within him, afraid to go on living but more afraid to die.
Also in this series are Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls
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