There is no description just for descriptions sake. All the characters are intriguing and unique, and no character is spared from a backstory coloring both their perspective and their part in the story.īarker’s attention to the details that matter is precise and exact. The magic that Barker created is described so artfully you can almost taste it. The story Barker – ahem – weaves in this collection of pages is an entertaining and fantastical way to learn some valuable lessons, but more on that later.
There is no first moment no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.” And that’s true. It’s about Shadwell the salesman, Immacolata the Incantrix, Hobart the Law, and a power that “can’t ever die. It’s about a carpet called The Weave, a man named Calhoun Mooney, and Suzanna Parish, the woman imbued with power. It’s about raptures, illusions, and magic. It’s about a slightly different history of humankind, known in this book as the Cuckoo’s, who live in the Kingdom, bred with some existing religious texts where we learn about the magical peoples known as the Seerkind who live within the Fugue.
Although it may be arguable to some that something of only 28 years is a classic, this book’s revered status is beyond argument. It was Clive Baker’s third novel published in 1987.
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