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The Broken (The Lost Words: Volume 2) Kindle Edition

by Igor Ljubuncic (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
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Eighteen years after Adam defeated the Kingdom of Parus and proclaimed himself emperor of Athesia, he dies peacefully in his sleep. When his daughter Amalia crowns herself empress and takes nobles from neighboring Eracia and Caytor hostage, the political situation in the Realms is primed to explode. Meanwhile, exiled god Damian has resumed his quest to flee his eternal prison and kill the remaining gods. With Damian renewing his murderous quest and tensions boiling over in the Realms, the conflicts breathlessly march toward an overwhelming conclusion.

Will Athesia prevail, or will it take a new leader to keep the empire intact? Will King Sergei of Parus be successful in his plans to avenge his family? Can Damian succeed in breaking the bonds of his imprisonment, or will he succumb to the one emotion he’s had all along?

Bringing back the series’ signature tone and styling, the novel’s gritty realism, intense atmosphere, and intricate storyline make The Broken more than live up to the promise of The Betrayed. A harsh lesson in morality, The Broken will leave readers clamoring for more.
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    The Lost Words
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Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation, an IT nerd by profession, and a prolific author with fourteen published works since 2011. His current portfolio spans three technical books, seven novels, and four anthologies, including a short story, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, which was nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History.

Igor runs a popular science and technology blog, dedoimedo.com, which has also been nominated and awarded several times over the years. Likewise, Igor's books have received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly, Underground Book Reviews, Midwest Book Review, SFFWorld, and others.

You can learn more about Igor's literary adventures at thelostwordsbooks.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DG87SS0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 26, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 26, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2587 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 793 pages
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Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation, an IT nerd by profession, and a prolific author, with twenty book publications in just the past decade. His portfolio covers technical books, novels in various fiction genres, and several anthologies, including a short story, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History.

Over the years, Igor’s fiction works have received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly, Underground Book Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and SFFWorld. His technical book on problem solving in high-performance computing is part of the Computer Science undergraduate studies curricula at several universities worldwide. It has also been translated to Chinese. In the course of his everyday work, Igor has invented fifteen patents and given presentations at numerous prestigious international conferences, like LinuxCon, CloudOpen, KDE Akademy, and many others.

In his free time, Igor runs a popular science and technology blog, www.dedoimedo.com, drives fast cars on racetracks, and tries to learn new languages. For more information on Igor’s literary adventures, please visit www.thelostwordsbooks.com.

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Asriel
4.0 out of 5 stars Better than the first book in the series
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2013
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I liked this book. At first I was taken aback cause I was expecting the story to continue right where the first book left off, but once I got over that I must say I enjoyed it. While I had complained about feeling indifferent towards most characters in book 1, I must say that changed in this book, so combined with the good plot and nice pace it made for a good read. Perhaps someone would expect and prefer that some threads found a closure, but that's book series for you and I must say it creates the premises for an explosive 3rd book. I'd have given it 4 and 1/2 stars if possible since I think it's better than The Betrayed.
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Doron Peretz
5.0 out of 5 stars An improvement to a good first book
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2013
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This sequel picks up the best things from the first book: gripping characters, each unique and twisted, never quite the protagonist nor the antagonist; story telling rarely seen these days where the author breaks the fantasy mold time and time again in interesting and unexpected ways; intrigue, politics, murder and betrayal. I read this book until having to get to sleep, while brushing my teeth, in elevator rides longer than three floors and whenever else I could sneak a page in.
The main difference from the first book is that it is bigger. Where the first book left off abruptly, this one builds to a satisfying conclusion (unless you are expecting all happy endings) in several fronts. In the end most conflicts raised in this book were resolved, while an overarching story is building up for the mandatory sequel. I, for one, am waiting for it with bated breath.
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johnc57
3.0 out of 5 stars A slow set-up for the next book of the series
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2014
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Adam the Butcher (he was not a very nice guy, thus the nickname) practically created an empire of Athesia by cutting chunks of neighboring kingdoms Eracia and Caytor. He also managed to give peace to all mentioned kingdoms and nice mutually profitable trade. The trade and Adam's reputation kept his neighbors in check. The story starts with Adam's death. His young daughter now has the responsibility to maintain his legacy, but Eracia, Caytor, and southern kingdom Parus suddenly recalled all of the old grievances and see a good chance of getting even. Lots of wars - small skirmishes and large-scale invasions follow.

The first book ended with what I thought a cliffhanger. This one starts 18 years later with practically no explanation of what happened in between. To my complete surprise I did not feel cheated as all the answers were given later by tiny bits; this was masterfully done and I really cannot recall anybody else doing this so successfully.

The characters - while interesting and none of them being black and white - for some reason failed to make me care about any of them, with one sole exception. A particularly interesting example of why it happens would be Adam's widow. She abdicated the throne essentially forcing her young and inexperienced daughter to plunge into cut-throat politics right away. One might think she would at least provide some counselling to her, but she can easily win the Most Useless Person of the Year award in this department.

As to my overall impression of the book it would be summarized in a short sentence: this is exactly what Brandon Sanderson's second book of Mistborn trilogy was. It feels slow after the first book with plot pace picking up occasionally, but slowing down shortly to see a lot of characters with POV wondering around and undergoing developments, but otherwise doing very little. This feels like a set-up for the next instalment of the series.

It is not a bad book, but it is really slow after the first one regardless of all the military action. It does make me eager to read the next one though. The final rating is <b>3.5 stars.</b> I am also happy the third novel is out as I am curious to see the continuation of the story.
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danijel00
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent sequel
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2013
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Reading the first book (The Betrayed) I was unaware that it is planned as a series, so I was confused with some seemingly unfinished plots. The Broken is built on those plots so people should read the first book.
This book has several story arcs that intertwine, characters are well developed, but luckily there are no unnecessary and long descriptions of nature and stuff that is a problem with many fantasy books. The dynamical jump between characters and story arcs makes this book hard to let go and forcing you to read just-one-more-page.
The story culminates, but it leaves a lot open, making us wait for the next book (hopefully not for very long).
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Uro Golob
5.0 out of 5 stars great sequel - time well spent
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2013
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If you are fantasy book fan you won't be disappointed, the Broken book is great sequel to first book (the Betrayed) in The Lost Worlds series and will make you wanna read next 2 books. Story gets a bit more precise and wider then in first book and characters are refined with unique personality, many will quickly adopt to different challenges they are facing through all raging war across Realms; Caytor, Athesia, Eracia. Their choices will probably seal their fate some day, read this book and find out who will succeed with its mission, who will loose and die(or not).
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tod
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2013
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I enjoyed The Lost Words volumes 1 & 2 with their rich interweaving sets of story lines. I thought the quality of writing in volume 1 started off a little rough, but then soon got continuously smoother. I had some trouble with many of the context switches between character sets and chapters (some hints and reminders would be helpful), but this didn't stop me from enjoying the convolution of the character sets. I also enjoyed Igor's use of colorful language -- especially the name of the trebuchets in volume 2. :) I'm looking forward to reading more from Igor.
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mom
3.0 out of 5 stars feeling sorry about that is they were cut to half the book would be much better. Almost every time story was told from Amalia ..
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016
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The story was going so slooooooow and there was so many unneeded pages of what every character is thinking, wishing, dreaming, plotting, feeling sorry about that is they were cut to half the book would be much better. Almost every time story was told from Amalia there was pages how much she wants to be like her father and how she fails to be and how she want's to cry. Almost same for James until he went to war.

Otherwise story is interesting and entertaining. The author successfully created a large world full of different nations, political and cultural differencies, heroes that feel alive and you case about them so you keep reading even some boring details I've mentioned above.
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John Page
4.0 out of 5 stars Another grimly gripping read - once you get into it
Reviewed in France on May 27, 2015
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The utility of a series is usually that when you start the second book you already know what is going on. So I was rather disappointed to find that 18 years have past and that I must start again the relatively arduous task of getting to know the characters involved. I can see how the development of the storyline requires the time gap, but a brief prologue saying what had happened to the main characters in the meantime would have been appreciated.

While the first book had heroes - some rather unlikely - and villains, the balance of good and evil was fairly clear cut. In this second installment, indecision, doubt and bad choices rather upset the balance of the world, though it remains unclear how this will ultimately affect the balance of good and evil. This rather gives this book, and I hope, its sequel, a strangely gripping quality.

Somewhat disappointingly, I still don't know what happened to Armin, the investigator.
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Keith H.
4.0 out of 5 stars Doubt spreading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2015
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Prepare to suspend your disbelief. This novel contains a great deal of the rather unlikely. I mean that in a good way. Where else do you find new ideas? I'd say 'The Broken' pulls off the trick of creating fiction and making it credible. It holds true to its own internal logic. In other (parts of the) world(s), they do things differently. Change the context, change the morality. So much better than familiar values in unfamiliar circumstances. The only flaw in this book is that it breaks Martin Amis's rule on narrative prevarication. Crafted prose describing a characters internal debate are apt to be dismissed by the reader as needless delay. Just get on with it. To be fair, the characters do get on with it; plenty happens, doubt spreading aside.
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