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Between Two Fires

  • 2012 first published
  • 456 pages
  • ★ 4.4 (5 ratings)
  • 7 editions

Between Two Fires is a 2012 demon fiction and angel fiction novel by Christopher Buehlman. It takes readers to France and Avignon, France in the 14th century. It features Lucifer. It deals with knights and knighthood, Devil, good and evil and angels.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 22 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 7 editions.

It runs to roughly 456 pages — 8–9 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Between Two Fires

And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

  • Lucifer

Subjects

  • Knights and knighthood
  • Devil
  • Good and evil
  • Angels
  • Amerikanisches Englisch
  • Fantasy
  • France
  • Historical Fiction
  • Horror
  • Black Death, Europe

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote Between Two Fires?

Between Two Fires was written by Christopher Buehlman and first published in 2012.

What genre is Between Two Fires?

It is usually shelved as Demons & Devils, Angel Fiction, Horror and Historical Fiction.

How long is Between Two Fires?

The median edition has 456 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Between Two Fires?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dreams of Gods & Monsters, City of Heavenly Fire and Malice.

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