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Sebastien De Castell

    Sebastien de Castell apporte une énergie vibrante à son écriture fantastique, puisant dans un parcours professionnel diversifié couvrant l'archéologie, la musique et la chorégraphie de combat. Son approche narrative est enrichie par cette large gamme d'expériences, qu'il considère comme des fils interconnectés dans son processus créatif. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des aventures palpitantes et à des mondes immersifs.

    Sebastien De Castell
    Crownbreaker
    FALL OF THE ARGOSI
    Shadowblack
    Knight's Shadow
    Tyrant's Throne
    L'Anti-Magicien
    • Il y a trois choses qui permettent de gagner un nom parmi les Jan’Tep. La première est de démontrer la force de défendre sa famille. La deuxième est de prouver que l'on peut réaliser la haute magie qui définit notre peuple. La troisième est simplement d'atteindre l'âge de seize ans. Kellen est à quelques semaines de son anniversaire lorsqu'il apprend qu'il ne pourra accomplir aucune de ces choses. La magie est une illusion. Kellen est sur le point de faire face à son premier duel de mage et au début de quatre épreuves qui feront de lui un lanceur de sorts. Mais il y a un problème : sa magie a disparu. À l'approche de son seizième anniversaire, Kellen s'appuie sur son astuce pour éviter la honte totale. Cependant, lorsqu'une étrangère audacieuse arrive en ville, elle défie Kellen de prendre un chemin différent. Ferius Parfax est l'une des mystérieuses Argosi - une voyageuse qui vit de son intelligence et des trois jeux de cartes qu'elle possède. Elle est difficile et imprévisible, mais elle pourrait bien être le seul espoir de Kellen...

      L'Anti-Magicien
      4,0
    • Would you - could you? - uphold the law at the cost of those you love? Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead King's dream: Aline is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and for all. But for the Greatcoats, nothing is ever that simple. In neighbouring Avares, an enigmatic new warlord is uniting the barbarian armies and even worse, he is rumoured to have a new ally: Falcio's old nemesis Trin. With the armies of Avares at her back, she'll be unstoppable. Falcio, Kest and Brasti go racing north to stop her, but in those cold, treacherous climes they discover something altogether different - and far more dangerous: a new player plans to take the throne of Tristia, and the Greatcoats, for all their determination and skill, may not be able to stop him.

      Tyrant's Throne
      4,5
    • Knight's Shadow

      • 624pages
      • 22 heures de lecture

      Tristia is a nation riven by intrigue and corruption - its idealistic young king is dead and its heroes, the Greatcoats, have been disbanded and branded traitors - but that doesn't mean Falcio, Kest and Brasti no longer have a mission. Falcio Val Mond has completed the final task given to him by King Paelis: he has found the King's Charoites (well, one at least), and now he, Kest and Brasti must protect the girl from those her want her dead. That would be simple enough, if it weren't for the Dashini, the legendary assassins, getting in their way, not to mention the Dukes, who are desperate to hold on to their power at any cost, or Trin, the daughter of the ruthless Duke of Rijou and the cruel Duchess of Hervor, who is determined to be Queen of Tristia. Of course, the fact that the heir to the throne is thirteen years old doesn't help, nor the fact that Falcio is slowly dying of poison. And then there is the Greatcoats Lament...

      Knight's Shadow
      4,4
    • Shadowblack

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      The second book in the rich, compelling and laugh-out-loud series for all teen, YA, adult and fantasy readers. Perfect for fans of The Dark Tower, Firefly, The Hunger Games and Guardians of the Galaxy.

      Shadowblack
      4,4
    • FALL OF THE ARGOSI

      • 300pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      New to the ways of the Argosi, the tribe of wandering philosophers who seek to defeat evil by wit and guile, Ferius Parfax encounters a hideous plague, the Red Scream. Highly contagious, caught by the hearing of a deadly verse, it turns its victims into mindless monsters that destroy all human life they come into contact with. With the help of a deaf boy whom she has saved from two horrifying victims of the plague, she sets out to find the source of the Red Scream and overcome it's terrifying power. Along the way she is joined by another Argosi, Rosie, who purports to be so much wiser and more adept than Ferius, but who turns out to have her own dark secrets

      FALL OF THE ARGOSI
      4,4
    • The final book in the page-turning 'Spellslinger' fantasy series.

      Crownbreaker
      4,4
    • Play of Shadows

      • 528pages
      • 19 heures de lecture

      Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series by the bestselling author of The Greatcoats.

      Play of Shadows
      4,4
    • Saint's Blood

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Fantasy. How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Brasti and Kest are about to find out. The Dukes were already looking for ways to weasel out of their promise to put Aline on her father's throne. - But with Saints turning up dead, rumors are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. To make matters worse, the churches are also pushing for control and have brought back their own military orders - including church knights and, worst of all, the Inquisitors, who have their own, much harsher form of justice. The only way Falcio can stop the country turning into a vicious theocracy is to find the Saint-killer

      Saint's Blood
      4,3
    • Soulbinder

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      The fourth book in the page-turning SPELLSLINGER fantasy series.

      Soulbinder
      4,2
    • Charmcaster

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      The third book in the rich, compelling and laugh-out-loud series for all teen, YA, adult and fantasy readers. Perfect for fans of The Dark Tower, Firefly, The Hunger Games and Guardians of the Galaxy.

      Charmcaster
      4,2
    • Ferius Parfax has a simple plan: kill every last inhabitant of the spell- gifted nation that destroyed her people, starting with the man who murdered her parents.

      Way of the Argosi
      4,2
    • The penultimate novel in the fantastical Spellslinger series

      Queenslayer
      4,2
    • Crucible of Chaos

      • 321pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Dumas meets Deadpool in this stand-alone fantasy from the award-winning author of TRAITOR'S BLADE and THE MALEVOLENT SEVEN.

      Crucible of Chaos
      4,0
    • Falcio is the first Cantor of the Greatcoats. Trained in the fighting arts and the laws of Tristia, the Greatcoats are travelling Magisters upholding King's Law. They are heroes. Or at least they were, until they stood aside while the Dukes took the kingdom, and impaled their King's head on a spike. Now Tristia is on the verge of collapse and the barbarians are sniffing at the borders. The Dukes bring chaos to the land, while the Greatcoats are scattered far and wide, reviled as traitors, their legendary coats in tatters. All they have left are the promises they made to King Paelis, to carry out one final mission. But if they have any hope of fulfilling the King's dream, the divided Greatcoats must reunite, or they will also have to stand aside as they watch their world burn.

      Traitor's blade
      4,0
    • Fate of the Argosi

      • 368pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      The third utterly compelling fantasy adventure in the ARGOSI trilogy, exploring the origins of the SPELLSLINGER series to enrapture devotees as well as newcomers alike. While liberating a notorious thief from prison, Ferius Parfax encounters an inmate named Chedran, one of the last living members of her people, the Mahdek.

      Fate of the Argosi
      4,0
    • The Malevolent Seven

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Brandon Sanderson meets Deadpool in this dark, irreverent fantasy from the bestselling author.

      The Malevolent Seven
      3,7
    • Magie ist auch nur Trickserei. Zumindest größtenteils Kellen wird bald 16 und steht kurz vor seiner Magierprüfung. Leider schwinden seine Kräfte Stück für Stück – und wenn er durchfällt, steigt er vom Sohn des mächtigsten Clan-Lords zum Diener ab! Doch so schnell gibt er nicht auf. Während andere mit Elementen zaubern, spielt Kellen geschickt mit Worten. Bisher hat er sich so durchs Leben getrickst – und gewinnt sogar sein erstes Duell, auch wenn er dabei fast draufgeht. Glücklicherweise erscheint genau in diesem Moment eine Fremde, die ihn ganz ohne Magie wiederbelebt. Zusammen stoßen die beiden auf Intrigen, die alles infrage stellen, woran Kellen je geglaubt hat.

      Spellslinger - Karten des Schicksals
      2,5