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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780765341426
ISBN number: 0765341425
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 864
Printing Date: December 27, 2005
Publishing house: Tor Books
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Sale Popularity Level: 33164
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The Demon Queen Attacks!
To his own surprise, young Kellen, once the disappointing son of the great Mage who leads the City’s Mage Council, has become a powerful Knight-Mage. Valued for his bravery and his skills as both wizard and warrior, Kellen joins the Elves’ war councils. Yet he cannot convince the City of his birth that it is in terrible danger.
Kellen’s sister Idalia, a Wild Mage with great healing ability, has pledged her heart to Jermayan, a proud Elven warrior. Someday Idalia will pay a tragic Price for a world-saving work of Wild Magic, but until then, she will claim any joy life can offer her.
Jermayan, who has learned much fighting at Kellen’s side and loving the human Idalia, finds that everything changes when he Bonds with a dragon while rescuing the Elf Prince and becomes the very first Elven Mage in a thousand years.
Furious at her enemies’ sucess with the dragon, the Demon Queen attacks in force. Light struggles against Dark, like flickering candle flames buried deep in the shadow of Obsidian Mountain.
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The very first page appears to be a graphic/picture. Its too small to read the text. Some one let me know when this is fixed and I will try again.
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This book, though slow, is still slightly better than the rushed and cramped third book. The authors seem to spend a lot of time on inconsequential events and then rush past those that are important (as one reads on). The repetitive story arc where the army seeks the shadowed elves becomes mundane and several times I almost stopped reading.
It also amazes me how the authors seemingly fit years of events into a trilogy spanning little more than one year. An enjoyable series but not quite up to the standard of Brooks, Eddings, or Weis & Hickman.
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It was a great extention of the very first book, and I had it for awhile. Easy to get into, nice flow. Great for pre-teens, make them look up the words they don't know.
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A GREAT BOOK!! My favorite fantasy book. My favorite fantasy trilogy. My favorite fantasy author. My favorite fantasy plot and my favorite fantasy characters. That not enough to convince you? The characters are really deep and the book as a whole flows and keeps you reading constantly. I couldn't put it down. It's suitable for all ages, which is hard to find in fantasy. I love it! A great read!
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After making my way through the very first book I bought the second because it seemed that the story had finally been set up enough to get exciting. And indeed, some parts of the story are; however those parts are very small and are linked together by what I found to be very boring repetitive dialouge and unclear story padding. First, almost all of the writing about the elves I found to be very annoying. Mallory and Lackney set the creatures up by saying how they have perfected living, are graceful, everything they make is beautiful and harmonious, then continually tear them down with talking about how they never take action, must not ask anything directly but rather must go through a long formal series of questions. The character of Kellen can be annoying at times, he is always wondering why the elves don't do defeat Shadow Mountain and griping about how the elves are always drinking tea and about the elves ettiquette. Kellen's character seems very slow to change or evolve throughout the story and I feel is really rather dense. For instance, why does he not understand that it is emotional for the elves to kill the shadow elves, a race breed by the demons from elves and gobins. Obiviously the elves can see themselves in these creatures!
Another problem I have with the book is that much of the magic created is very much unexplained. For instance, the bonding with dragons is basically set up as sometimes a person/elf can bond with a dragon and then they have more magic than anyone. Finally, the elf army seems very weak. They are constantly suffering huge losses from Shadow Elves and in my mind I kept thinking "well what are they going to do if they actually have to fight the demons army? They've already lost half their own troops and that was just against a group of creatures that live in caves".
To sum it up, there are some enjoyable parts to this book, and the trilogy. However I do not think it comes close to being as good as some of the other fantasy out there. If you choose to read this, be prepared for some long repetitive passages
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