by Paul S. Kemp
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This is the final title in a new trilogy featuring the most popular character from the Sembia series. The author of Resurrection concludes the tale of the Forgotten Realms most enigmatic hero, Erevis Cale. Drawn deeper and deeper into the service of Mask, Cale may find himself so lost in the shadows that he can never return.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Great Book in a Great Trilogy, 2008-05-08
(Spoiler Free Review)
If you liked the first book, Twilight Falling (Forgotten Realms: The Erevis Cale Trilogy) then this is an excellent continuation of the story. Both the heroes and villains become more powerful as they battle each other through the realms. Cale struggles to hang on to his humanity as he chases the villains through the most vile parts of the realms.
The story, battles, and characters all become more intense in this book as the stakes become higher. Both the heroes and villains hunt each other throughout the story. The villains are also shapeshifters, which complicates matters for the good guys.
There is a little less action in this book, but more time is spent on developing the characters. And these characters are great! The character development in this trilogy deserves 5 stars.
This is an excellent continuation of Twilight Falling and a good lead in to Midnight's Mask (Forgotten Realms: The Erevis Cale Trilogy, Book 3).
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 What happened?, 2007-12-24
I read the first book in the trilogy and obviously liked it enough to move onto the second. The first book was relatively fast paced, had lots of action, and was generally enjoyable. I have no idea what happened to this second book, but it just took everything in the wrong direction.
The action from the first book for the most part is gone. It turned from a Schwartezenager film to Oceans Eleven. The book just builds and builds on a plan set up by Cales enemies. It doesn't stop building until the last 30 pages of the book. I can appreciate an author setting the stage, but a huge chunk of this book could have been greatly downsized.
I found the characters motivation for their quest to be weak to say the least. At one point one of the characters reasoning for partaking in the life threating, grueling journey is just basically described as "just because I feel like it".
There is a bit of a love story in the book involving one of the main characters. It was ridiculous and should not have wasted a single page in the book. Every time the girls name was mentioned I couldn't help but roll my eyes.
One of my biggest gripes with the book is that by page 200 there are literally 10+ major questions that haven't been answered. By the end of the book you still don't know what in the world the lead baddy is planning to do. So basically the case is that you have 4 good guys trying to stop several bad guys from doing...... something. And the minions of the bad guy.. well their motivation is to also do... something else that is never described. "Hey guys! lets all risk our lives time and again to stop someone that we don't know from doing something that we don't know" is basically the logic through all 300 pages of the book. I'm usually not one who is on the lookout for story holes, or plot discrepancies but this was just bad in more spots than I could handle.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
The Night is in Full Swing!, 2007-11-05
Dawn of Night is the second book of the Erevis Cale Trilogy (following Twilight Falling) and continues the exploits of Erevis Cale and his three companions, Jak Fleet, a Halfling cleric, Drasek Riven, a one-eyed human assassin and Magadon, a psionic tiefling (demon-spawn).
As book two begins, we are introduced to the being manipulating the major events of this trilogy, The Sojourner. It is he who has "created" the slaadi, the three main antagonists from book one who were responsible for stealing the Weave Tap, a "sapling" of immense magic, and whose actions turned Cale from a human into a shade, a creature half man and half shadow. In this novel, the three slaadi are sent on an errand to place a seed from the Weave Tap into a massive power source located in the bowls of the planet, outside of an underground cesspool of a city known as Skullport. This seed's function is to connect the magical power of the Shadow Weave and send it back to The Sojourner, where the a second seed is harnessing the power of the Weave itself.
Before even getting to Skullport, Cale and the others, who we left at the end of book one about to drown beneath the cold waters of a lake, find themselves marooned on The Plane of Shadows, a realm that sucks the life, color and energy out of everything, but seems to give Cale a better understanding of his abilities as a Shade.
This novel, first and foremost, is a character study of Erevis Cale and his transformation from human into shade. He learns the limits of his new abilities and, with the help of Jak, Riven and Magadon, flee from the hideous creatures of the Shadow Domain and return to world of Faerun. They are all on a mission now...to destroy the three slaadi, discover who The Sojourner is and stop their plans from succeeding.
This journey eventually finds them Skullport, an underground city catering the very worst creatures and the most despicable vices associated with such monsters. Again, we discover more and more about each of our main protagonists. Magadon is at war with his demonic half, Jak must face down the horror of witnessing such vile and desperate acts that he sees in Skullport, while Riven himself must face down memories of a previous time he spent in the city of skulls.
The final confrontation is a magical battle that is both tour-de-force in its intensity and in the shocking betrayal that is hinted at throughout, but is so difficult to actually watch happen. That final point, in my opinion, is what makes Mr. Kemp superior writer. That ability to create empathy in even the most heinous of individuals, along with the ease in which I found myself effortlessly turning page after page, make this an excellent second novel of the trilogy.
Granted, there is not as much action, not as many smaller hurdles to overcome for the characters, but those that do present themselves are more difficult for the characters and more violently rendered. This is certainly not a novel for pre-teens, as the graphic imagery is sometimes difficult to digest. Rest assured, however, that the violence is essential to not only the storyline, but to the characters as well and is, at no point, gratuitous in nature.
Dawn of Night is a FIVE STAR sequel to Twilight Falling and, as its predecessor did before it, leaves us with a jaw-dropping cliffhanger where death is certainly possible and the darkness can only expand and deepen.
The Erevis Cale Trilogy concludes with Midnight's Mask...and not a moment too soon!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Erevis Cale for President, 2004-10-18
This second of the three about the First of Five is a great read. Mr. Kemp does an excellent job, as always, of providing characters with believable details undertaking epic tasks. The gritty characters of Cale and Riven are impressive enough to inspire several copy-cat characters for those of us that read and play the RPGs. The ending is another terrific cliff-hanger which leaves us waiting and wondering "When is the next book Mr. Kemp?"
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Highly Recommended, 2004-09-12
I really enjoyed the second chapter in the tale of Cale and friends and am looking forward to the final (?) installment.
Each character gets enough center stage to satisfy everyone, and their development is real. These are flawed characters with some problems and real issues which allows the reader to more intimately identify with one or more of them.
If you're a fan of Riven (and who doesn't like the one-eyed scoundral?), then the Dawn of Night is an absolute must read! Riven's development in this book is surprising, shocking, and well done. I won't give anything away, but I will say that Mr. Kemp has proven that things aren't as they always first appear.
Jak continues to be the loyal friend, always there when the chips are down and serving as a moral compass at times for Cale. Mags is a great addition and I'm glad to see a well written psion and am looking forward to reading more of him. And as usual, Cale stoicly moves ahead doing what he knows must be done.
All in all, an excellent read. The scenes in Skullport are worth the price alone. I highly recommend this book and the series.
Till we meet in Skullport,
The Bat
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