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Title: impressive world building
Review: 'The Darkness That Comes Before' is the first novel in the 'Prince of Nothing' series. As usual with first books in this type of epic fantasy, there is a lot of history and introductions to people and places with strange names. Bakker has done a very good job world building, and a good job explaining the relationships between various nations and factions. Basically he has taken the idea of the Crusades and transferred them to a fantasy setting. Overlaying this is hints that an ancient evil, once responsible for an apocalypse thousands of years ago, is returning and may in fact be manipulating current events. All in all a lot of work for the reader but also lot of fun. This is how I like my fantasy; solid back story, plenty of intrigue, action, sorcery and magic, and ancient evils.
