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Dark Serpent

Dark Serpent 1

by Kylie Chan
Publication Date: 01/05/2013
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Get ready for more addictive martial arts fighting and Chinese mythology from bestselling author Kylie Chan...the amazing series that began with Emma Donahoe and John Chen will end with this trilogy. Kylie Chan burst into prominence with WHItE tIGER in 2006 and quickly established a huge fanbase. Her series combines martial arts and magic as the story follows the lives of the mysterious John Chen and his partner, Emma Donahue. Now John and Emma's epic story is coming to an end in this final trilogy beginning with DARK SERPENt. John and Emma head to Wales to try and work out who - or what - Emma is. But rather than providing a clear path to their long hoped-for marriage the answer could tear them apart forever. Emma will be forced to betray either John, her beloved Xuan Wu, or her past and birthright. to make matters worse, John's celestial home at Wudangshan is under attack from the Demon King. Can John find the Emma he knows and love, and save Wudangshan from demonic destruction?
ISBN:
9780732294403
9780732294403
Category:
Fantasy
Publication Date:
01-05-2013
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
480
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x36mm
Weight:
0.55kg
Kylie Chan

Kylie Chan started out as an IT consultant and trainer specialising in business intelligence systems. She worked in Australia and then ran her own consulting business for ten years in Hong Kong.

hen she returned to Australia in 2002, Kylie made the career change to writing fiction, and produced the bestselling nine-book Dark Heavens series, a fantasy based on Chinese mythology, published by HarperVoyager worldwide. She is now a fulltime writer based in Queensland's Gold Coast, enjoying the beach and writing a new science fiction series.

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Dark Serpent is the eighth novel by Australian author, Kylie Chan, and is the first book in the Celestial Battle Trilogy. It follows on immediately from the last book of the Journey to Wudang Trilogy, Heaven to Wudang. Xuan Wus Snake is still captive in the Demon Kings grasp, and numerous efforts are made to free it. But then an edict from the Jade Emperor sends John and Emma, along with their Welsh visitors, Brian and Tom OBreen, to Britain to investigate what is happening in the Western Celestial Plane. Emma finds other descendants of her ancestors, but soon also realises she is not only most unwelcome at Holyhead, but also in great danger. Emma and John discovers Emmas true nature and how she came to be that way, as well as learning of the plans that the Demon King and his Western counterpart have for the Eastern Celestial Plane. Countless sentient Stones are missing and the Grandmother (Uluru) makes an appearance. The number of times that Emma is captured and freed will just about have the readers mind spinning; add to that the number of times John dies and visits Court Ten, and some dizziness is bound to result. Chan is not afraid to kill off characters, including one from the first book of the Dark Heavens Trilogy. This instalment has plenty of Celtic mythology as well as a bit of Greek and Roman input; an interesting take on the Christian religions; fearful new (and sometimes virtually undetectable) variants of demons; input from the Blue Dragon and the Red Phoenix; a celestial version of GPS; pregnancy, miscarriage and hysterectomy; plenty of battles and deaths; and a unicorn-like qilin. This novel is narrated in part by Emma (first person) and part by John (third person), and while Chan states the reader could start with this one, there is virtually no recap, so without having read previous novels in the series, the reader would be quite lost. Chan does include a very handy list of characters at the end, and it is to be hoped this will also be done for the next two books, tentatively titled Demon Child and Black Jade. This one has plenty of action, some humour and a bit of heartache, making it a cracking good read that will have fans eager for the next instalment.

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