Dawning Shadow: Thron

collecting this author for grandson, after I have read them. Love Somtow's books

This is the sequel to Dawning Shadow: Light on the Sound (Inquestor Trilogy, Book 1) Synopsis: An innocent child is transformed from a man of war to a god of peace! The Inquest has ruled throughout the millennia with awesome power. Man has lost his hopes, his soul, his drams of utopia. Only an Inquestor can free mankind from this false god. Kelver, hand-picked as a child for this awesome mission, has survived an intergalactic struggle with other Inquestral prodigies to conquer the almighty Inquest. Now he must find and grasp the Throne of Madness, to wage mystic warfare - and change the Universe forever! This book is twice at beautiful as the first! The author's use compound words comes through so clearly it's romantic. Here is an example of these compound words: shimmercloak, whispershadow, sunjoy, wombwarm, joyflood and whispergibber. The universe in which the author explores is vast and fantastic, with diverse worlds of human populations. The author's description of Shtoma (a utopia with a sentient sun) and the inhabitants bliss is refreshing. However, not the entire book is so wonderfully written and a pleasure for the eye to read. This book is also twice as perverse as Light on the Sound. Three of the main characters are teenagers (Kelver, Arryk and Siriss). Within the first half of the book there are many trades of intercourse between one or the other, even between the three of them. Situations include: genital chocolate licking, two three-somes (one with two teens and old lady), and an orgy inside a giant sea snake. The three most disturbing scenes in this book include necrophilia, paedonecrophilia and a zombie-on-child rape. If you can grimace through the parts above, the story and writing of the book is very beautiful and the story is fulfilling.