Imajica

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Once the reconciliation failed, the replica of Sartori left to the dominions and eventually became the ruler of them as the Autarch.

His work has been exhibited extensively in galleries across the United States and has been featured in magazines including Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur. As Sartori, he was in love with Judith, the lover of Joshua Godolphin, and was able to convince Joshua to let him create a replica of her through magic. Pie and Gentle arrive in the Fourth Dominion and head to the nearby village of Vanaeph, where the Autarch is coming to investigate rumors of rebellion. I'm thinking that in about 10 years when my brain has recovered I would like to pick up a physical copy of the book and give it a better try.Normally I start a book and read it to the end but with Imajica I would read a chapter and put it down, turning to another book. The plot was disappointing, lengthy and not obvious, making me wonder why any character was really bothered.

Imajica is a fantasy novel of make believe worlds, containing magic and societies on planets away from earth. The first two hundred pages of Imajica were as fun, mysterious and challenging as any Clive Barker material I've eve read, but as soon as Gentle and Pie'oh'pah stepped into the In Ovo to reach the Fourth Dominion, I knew exactly everything that would happen from then on. Gentle as well heads to the palace with a follower of Athanasius, who found the still living Estabrook after he was left for dead after his fight with Godolphin. Vast in conception, meticulously detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution, Imajica is a tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction.I was expecting something on the scale of mass genocide, not a handful of people dead in a small house in London.

I can’t believe I have emerged with this feeling but will tell the truth: I wish I could read of their third journey!

Quaisoir, amazingly still alive arrives and using her power saves Judith and lets Dowd fall in the well after he reveals that hundreds of years before he found a woman for Hapexamendios, Celestine, who bore him a child. Dowd and Judith, who had been having more visions of her, soon arrive and all the rebels are either killed or flee. When Celestine is brought up, Hapexamendios grows angry and sends a flame across the dominions to kill her. The design is loosely based on the Euclidian shapes depicting colored geometric figures which appear throughout the book. Gentle's spirit makes its way through the dominions, passing through the Erasure into the first dominion.

So after 20 years I decided to revisit Imagica and see how I thought of it with older eyes (or ears, since I selected the Audible edition for my reread).Pie heads there with a fellow group of his species but most are killed and he tells his final companion to leave when he finds paintings of familiar places from Earth in the palace. Barker likes to have his character face trials and obstacles, like any author, but in this case, many of them in the first half felt like they halted the progression of the story for too long. Gentle ends up freeing the women, who then lead Gentle and Pie to a frozen doorway leading into the third dominion. The original Judith became his queen, Quaisoir, while the replica, the Judith we've come to know throughout the book, remained on Earth, bound to the Godolphin family. While Barker is critical of organized religion, he has stated that he is a believer in both God and the afterlife, and that the Bible influences his work.