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Author name: Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory

: When Darkness Falls (The Obsidian Trilogy, Book 3)
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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780765341433
ISBN number: 0765341433
Label: Tor Fantasy
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: May 01, 2007
Publishing house: Tor Fantasy
Sale Popularity Level: 26691
Studio: Tor Fantasy



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A great working of Wild Magic and High Magic strikes at the heart of the Demon Queen’s plots, but the human city, the Golden City of the Bells, falls farther under her sway with each day that passes.  And without the City’s High Magicians, the Wild Magicians, the Elven Army, and all their allies will surely fall before the onslaught of the Demon Queen’s malignant warriors.

But all hope is not lost.  The Light’s young mages, tempered by war, grow ever more powerful.  High Mage Cilarnen learns an ancient secret that can make him, for a brief, white-hot time, the greatest mage in the world—unless it kills him. 
Jermayan, the very first Elf-Mage in centuries, has linked with the dragon Ancaladar and rediscovered the swift-as-thought powers of Elven magic, which can reshape mountains and summon lightning from clear skies. 

Knight-Mage Kellen has molded his troops and the Unicorn Knights into a deadly fighting force.  Soon the Elven King and his Commanders put Kellen’s magical gifts to their greatest test, in the final battle between the Elves, the humans, and the Demons. 




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User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Weakest Book in the Series
What started well does not end well, at least as far as the writing is concerned. It seems the authors became so rushed to finish the series in a nice and tidy 3 book set that they crammed an abundance of events into too few pages. While the overall story moves forward better than the second book, the authors seem to only devote a few paragraphs or pages to key events and conflicts. For this series, perhaps devoting less time on secondary characters, or pushing the series to four books would have worked better.

Still, it is an enjoyable series despite the many obvious flaws. I am spoiled after reading much of Weis and Hickman and some of the older Eddings and Brooks novels.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Excellent Book - Questionable Kindle Port - Read The Sample First
Mercedes Lackey is one of the most dependable fantasy authors around - she always delivers a considered, methodical story with an unusual twist on our preconceptions regarding this genre of novels. With the talents of James Mallory added to the mix, The Obsidian Trilogy, and When Darkness Falls in particular, are no exceptions to this rule.

The final book in a trilogy about Kellen Tavadon, the very first Knight-Mage seen in the land in over a thousand years, When Darkness Falls begins with the alliance of Men and Elves with its back against the proverbial wall. Beset by the enemy on every side, Kellen and his allies try to save the Elves and other creatures who are under assult by the Endarkened. They realize, however, that they will have to make their last stand at the gates of Armerthalieh, the City of a Thousand Bells, home of the practioners of High Magick, who have come to believe that the Elves and other non-humans who live outside the city are the cause of their problems. The fact that the leader of the city, Arch-Mage Anigrel, is an agent of Savilla, the Endarkened Queen, doesn't help matters at all.

While I enjoyed the book immensly, I do have some nits to pick with Amazon, or TOR (the publisher) about the Kindle edition. First, although the very first volume (The Outstreched Shadow), and the final volume are available for the Kindle, the middle volume of the trilogy is not. Seems like a silly mistake to make, but it certainly increased my irritation with the publisher and bookseller afer I read the very first book. I gave in and bought a paperback copy at my local bargan bookstore - but I would have bought a Kindle version - if one had been available.

My second nit is with the font used in this edition. It's somewhat cursive, and doesn't display very well on your Kindle, especially the thinner parts of the letters, or the downstrokes of letters like Y and G. This made the book harder to read, and I frequently had to stop and re-read passages.

In conclusion, the story is top notch, and deserves a 5 star rating. However, before purchasing this book, I strongly recommend that you download a sample and see if the font display is hard for you to read. I downgraded my rating from five stars to three for this reason alone. If you're constantly struggling with the font, you can't very well "disappear" into the story the way you can with most other Kindle titles.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Read it
Magic, Knights, Elves, Dragons, Unicorns, Demons.... Awesome! It was an awesome ending to an awesome trology. It was bitter sweet to finish it. I read it fast, I couldnt put it down. When I finished, I was sad that it was all over.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - When Darkness Falls
Great final book to the trilogy. Keeps you entertained and guessing to the final end.


Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - The difficulty of ending a trilogy well
The third part of the Obsidian Trilogy contains much of what I expect of Lackeys writing: well fleshed out characters, good varieties in motivation of such, interesting plot ideas, solid action. Where it falls short is that the story in itself could have been told on half of the pages. Somewhere in the middle I started to scan the neverending battle scenes that do nothing to either advance the plot or the characters. In other words, they are boring (although believebaly written)and lead to predictable action. The characters would have deserved better with more twists and turns or exciting new developments. Fewer clashing swords and more character driven action would have kept my attention.
For the bordedom factor and predictability - two stars only.

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