Caine's Law (The Acts of Caine, #4) by Matthew

Woodring Stover

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Original Title: Caine's Law (The Acts of Caine, #4)

ISBN: 0345455894
ISBN13: 9780345455895
Autor: Matthew Woodring Stover
Rating: 3.9 of 5 stars (2297) counts
Original Format: Paperback, 496 pages
Download Format: PDF, RTF, ePub, CHM, MP3.
Published: April 3rd 2012 / by Del Rey / (first published January 1st 2012)
Language: English
Genre(s):
Fantasy- 130 users
Science Fiction- 24 users
Fiction- 11 users
Fantasy >Dark Fantasy- 11 users
Fantasy >Epic Fantasy- 9 users

Description:

SOME LAWS YOU BREAK. SOME BREAK YOU.

AND THEN THERES CAINES LAW.

From the moment Caine first appeared in the pages of Heroes Die, two things were clear. First,
that Matthew Stover was one of the most gifted fantasy writers of his generation. And second, that
Caine was a hero whose peers go by such names as Conan and Elric. Like them, Caine was
something new: a civilized man who embraced savagery, an actor whose life was a lie, a force of
destruction so potent that even gods thought twice about crossing him. Now Stover brings back
his greatest creation for his most stunning performance yet.

Caine is washed up and hung out to dry, a crippled husk kept isolated and restrained by the studio
that exploited him. Now they have dragged him back for one last deal. But Caine has other plans.
Those plans take him back to Overworld, the alternate reality where gods are real and magic is the
ultimate weapon. There, in a violent odyssey through time and space, Caine will face the demons
of his past, find true love, and just possibly destroy the universe.

Hey, its a crappy job, but somebodys got to do it.

About Author:

Matthew Woodring Stover is an American fantasy and science fiction author. He is perhaps best
known for his Star Wars novels -- Traitor, Shatterpoint, Revenge of the Sith and Luke Skywalker
and the Shadows of Mindor. He has also published several pieces of original work, such as
Heroes Die, which Stover described as 'a piece of violent entertainment that is a meditation on
violent entertainment'. Stover's work often emphasises moral ambiguity, psychological
verisimilitude and bursts of intense violence.
Stover is deeply interested in various forms of martial arts, having trained in the Degerberg Blend,
a concept that utilises the thought behind Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do as its foundation.

Other Editions:

- Caine\'s Law (Kindle Edition)

- Caine\'s Law: The Acts of Caine: Book 4 (Kindle Edition)

- Caine\'s Law (Acts of Caine: Act of Atonement, Book 2)

- Caine\'s Law (ebook)

- Prawo Caine\'a (Akty Caine\'a, #4)

Books By Author:
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

- Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine, #1)

- Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

- Shatterpoint
 - Blade of Tyshalle (The Acts of Caine, #2)

Books In The Series:

- Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine, #1)

- Blade of Tyshalle (The Acts of Caine, #2)

- Caine Black Knife (The Acts of Caine, #3)

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Rewiews:

Feb 03, 2017

Brad
Rated it: it was amazing
Shelves: sci-fi, fantasy, reality-bending, 2016-shelf
This latest novel that just came out a few years ago is still a high quality Caine adventure, but
there's a new twist.
He's being ridden by a god. He's still the badass that everyone fears (and respects), but he prefers
to go by other names and live by his own slightly milder agenda. He wants to be left alone. He
wants to not need to kill people.
Of course, he has the gratitude of a god and near unlimited power to wield in the name of chaos
and pure severing, all of which he doesn't want, so in al
This latest novel that just came out a few years ago is still a high quality Caine adventure, but
there's a new twist.
He's being ridden by a god. He's still the badass that everyone fears (and respects), but he prefers
to go by other names and live by his own slightly milder agenda. He wants to be left alone. He
wants to not need to kill people.
Of course, he has the gratitude of a god and near unlimited power to wield in the name of chaos
and pure severing, all of which he doesn't want, so in all real effects, this novel is the tale of a
wandering reluctant cleric, and NOT of the master assassin that just doesn't give a fuck about who
he kills as long as he saves the ones he loves.
Don't get me wrong. This is also a novel of growing up even after you're past age 50. It also
happens to be another of a great revenge novel, a smite your ass novel, and the trickling after
effects of a GENOCIDE from the previous novel.
It also happens to be full of fantastic revelations like the first two, rife with not just fantasy and SF
worlds, but also a ton of time travel and that peculiar black oil that makes people's heads explode
on command. Gotta love that shit. This old man still knows how to kill gods.
My only complaint, strangely enough, is that I think I might have preferred to read a clever editing
of both the 3rd and 4th novels combined as one. That way we can have the full force of the great
fighting scenes, the rising tension and genocide, right up against the wall of Caine's becoming.
Sure, it would be one hell of a long novel, but that's not too different from the first two, and
together, 3 and 4 make an explosively awesome tale that yet again outdoes the predecessors in
scale and implication.
I love fulfilled expectations. This is doing it. Totally cool shit.
I won't lie and say it's the end-all of all SF and Fantasy, because it isn't. But it is a (relatively) quiet
exploration of good and evil, forgiveness and permission, the wounds that make up a person,
memory, and justice. It's still smart as hell and doesn't flinch at asking the really hard questions.
It's not just good action and plot and characters. It's philosophical in just the right tone as to not get
pedantic.
Okay, let's face it, Caine can't get pedantic. He'd probably kill your ass before he finished trying to
make his point. :)
I absolutely loved seeing the dragon fly over the studios. Righteous. :)
Oh yeah, and horse witch?
Yeah. I love her loads. What a character she is! What romance! :) I kept thinking of the timey-
wimey stuff from Doctor Who and Dr. River Song. :)
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