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  • Lord of Emperors

  • Book Two of the Sarantine Mosaic
  • By: Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Narrated by: Berny Clark
  • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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Lord of Emperors

By: Guy Gavriel Kay
Narrated by: Berny Clark
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Crispin the mosaicist wants to concentrate on his art. Rustem of Kerakek, a physician, is also on his own journey of self-discovery. But no man may withdraw from society that easily, and both men soon find themselves drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium.

Lord of Emperors is the sequel to Sailing to Sarantium.

©2000 Guy Gavriel Kay (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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A masterpiece comes together

It all comes together in this final book in the Sarantine Mosaic duology - like Caius Crispus's mosaic appears to be doing on the Emperor's sanctuary dome. Seriously, Kay is the artist here, fitting the pieces of the puzzle together for us with such beautiful and magnificent expertise (his writing and detail) that we are left to marvel at his genius. There is the action of the Hippodrome, the intrigue and treachery in the Emperor's court, and the romance, the love that is always entwined through his stories, all there to keep the reader intrigued. At times through the two books, I wondered where all of it was going - especially since Crispus seems to love more than one woman - but by the end, it was all perfectly tied up and just right. Beautiful. The narrator was more annoying in the first book but I think I was used to him this time around - still mispronouncing words though and the lower English accents (charioteers etc) are appalling!

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Perfectly beautiful

A masterwork!
This review needs more words but I’m still dealing with the ending. Amazing, sorrowful, brilliant.

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a great journey

i enjoyed this sequal. not as fast paced as the first but the characters really came alive, and evolved.

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