Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
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Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War is the second book in a series of five by author Clive Barker, called The Books of Abarat. This volume contains the adventures of Candy Quackenbush, an ordinary girl from Minnesota, in the strange fantasy world of Abarat. It was published in 2004.
[edit] Plot summary
The entire book is spread out over eight weeks of time, compared to the two or three in Book 1, titled simply Abarat. The very beginning of the book is when the most time elapses, with several weeks of Candy Quackenbush and Malingo the Geshrat travelling from Hour to Hour. Christopher Carrion's whereabouts are a mystery until about the second quarter of the book, in which Mendelson Shape is killed and the Prince of Midnight plots with the Sacbrood in the Pyramids of Xuxux. Sacbrood are terrifying insects of all shapes and sizes who Carrion has been breeding in order to help him create Absolute Midnight. At this point Candy begins to develop powers like those of the Fantomaya, and starts to get a strange feeling she has been to the Abarat before.
This book introduces us to several new major characters, including Finnegan Hob, the would-be husband of Princess Boa, and Letheo, the lizard-boy servant of Christopher Carrion.
[edit] Similarity to other Fantasy
Finnegan Hobb's vendetta against "worms" is very similar to Prince Rilian's vendetta against snakes in C.S. Lewis' novel The Silver Chair, in the book prince Rilian is involved in a vendetta against all snakes because one chanced to kill his mother. This book will be followed by three more, Absolute Midnight and the Eternal, along with an as yet unnamed fifth book.
[edit] External links
- Revelations - The Official Clive Barker Resource Constantly updated news and archive of fascinating comment.
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| Novels, novellas, and Short story collections |
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| Stand-alone: The Damnation Game | The Hellbound Heart | Weaveworld | Imajica | Books of Blood | The Thief of Always | Sacrament | Galilee | Coldheart Canyon |
| Books of the Art: The Great and Secret Show | Everville |
| The Abarat Quintet: Abarat | Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War | Abarat: Absolute Midnight | Abarat: The Eternal | [untitled fifth book] |
| Short story collections: Books of Blood | Cabal | In the Flesh | The Inhuman Condition | The Scarlet Gospels |
| Films |
| Directed by Clive Barker: Salome | The Forbidden | Hellraiser | Nightbreed | Lord of Illusions | Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae |
| Directed by others: Rawhead Rex | Underworld | Candyman | Saint Sinner |
| Other |
| Art collections: Clive Barker, Illustrator | Illustrator II: The Art of Clive Barker | Clive Barker Visions of Heaven and Hell |
| Plays: Incarnations: Three Plays | Forms of Heaven: Three Plays |
| Video games: Clive Barker's Undying | Demonik | Clive Barker's Jericho |
| Recurring characters |
| Cenobites | Pinhead | Harry D'Amour |
